About Elizabeth Monkus

Elizabeth Monkus (she/her) is the Senior Attorney & Project Director for Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts. Elizabeth came to Chicago Appleseed in 2010 to manage the Judicial Performance Commission Demonstration project. She currently focuses on domestic relations and judicial elections in her program work.

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What We Read, March 12-16, 2012  Judicial Elections and Judiciary Reform: Last week, the Kansas House voted to dismantle Kansas’ six-year-old commission on judicial performance. 18 states have judicial performance commissions, established by statute, court rule or state constitution. Chicago Appl...
March 16, 2012

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What We Read, February 27-March 2, 2012 Immigration Court Reform: The 11th Circuit heard arguments on Thursday, March 1, on immigration laws in Alabama and Georgia, modeled after the notorious Arizona immigration law. The Arizona law goes before the Supreme Court of the U.S. in April. The 11th...
March 2, 2012

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What We Read, February 20-26, 2012 Criminal Justice Reform: The big news in criminal justice last week was Governor Quinn's announcement that he plans to close Tamms Prison. The move is applauded by prison reform groups. The Justice Policy Institute wrote about taking politics out of the parol...
February 26, 2012

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What We Read, February 6-8, 2012   Immigration The National Immigrant Youth Alliance has created UndocuHealth, a resource for undocumented immigrants with mental health issues (via Feministing ). The merit’s brief for Petitioner Arizona in the federal immigration case U.S. v. Arizona is now av...
February 10, 2012
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