All Illinois Voters Can Now Vote By Mail!

The Cook County blog reports that, for the first time in state history, all registered Illinois voters may mail in their vote. “In the past, you needed an absentee excuse to vote by mail,” Cook County Clerk David Orr said. “All voters are now eligible for a mail ballot, bringing one more convenient...
March 1, 2012

Links of Interest

What We Read, June 13-17, 2011 Criminal Justice Court Reform: SCotUS Blog analyzes the 5-4 decision in J.D.B. v. North Carolina (.pdf), in which the Court has ruled for the first time that police must take into account the age of a youth they intend to question when deciding whether or not they m...
June 17, 2011

We want you…to volunteer

We’ve very excited about the progress the Judicial Performance Commission is making. Our email survey of attorneys that have appeared before judicial retention candidate has garnered more than 1,200 responses already, and we anticipate hundreds more will be collected as the commission’s work progres...
June 29, 2010

Judicial Performance Commission Pilot Project

There are 73 Cook County judges up for retention in the November election. Because voters have no real opportunity to independently evaluate such a large slate of candidates, unfortunately, many voters either abstain from the retention vote or make decisions based on familiar ballot cues (e.g. ethni...
June 15, 2010
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