The judge being an ass and being hispanic are not related behaviors.

Unless you want to blame that whole “child prisoners for profit” scam in Pennsylvania where judges of Irish and Italian heritage (Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan) are unfit for office not because they were on the take and selling children into prison for profit, but rather find them at fault for simply being white diegos and micks – which as everyone knows is an automatic disqualification for being a judge.

Got racism?

You sure do.

See, it works like this: Scalia isn’t fit to be on SCOTUS. But his being an amoral criminal supporting anti-constitutional fascist ass has less to do with his being of Italian lineage than it does with him being in Dick Cheney’s pocket and a general scumbag. In contrast, Federal Court Judge Sullivan (currently at odds with the DOJ for acting improperly in his court and hearing arguments from Prof. Turley in the IMF case) is an excellent judge based on his past performance. And it has NOTHING to do with his being black. He’s good as his job. He’d be good at his job is he was plaid. The IMF protestors should be glad they drew a good judge. Just like people who drew an unfit judge should be pissed.

See how that works? Incompetent vs. competent. Race doesn’t have a damn thing to do with that.

I agree with Mike Spindell above
“Something occurred between these two that the judge took personally. however, personal feelings have no place in the administration of a sound legal system. For this act alone he should be removed from the bench.”

I believe I know why Judge Lopez acts as he does in my case but it is a personal issue between he and myself. It has no place influencing his decisions which will affect the life of my child.

I believe he should be removed from the bench because he can’t separate his emotions from the facts of the case.

This is not True only the Attorneys that have paid the Price can act as you say. Not all attorneys in Cook County are Dirty.

I am in front of Judge Lopez for . . . .
And as far as the paid attorneys not liking when I sit at the lawyers table, I am more of lawyers than most of them, and I will sit at the attorney’s table anytime I am in court.

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Most of the Inmates I have Represented have been the most knowledgeable in post conviction remedies and procedure too bad they could not have been as knowledgeable about how to stay out of Prison to start with.

I have no doubt that some may have issue with you.

This is definitely an issue of not hearing the full story from what I have read on many site.

And as far as the paid attorneys not liking when I sit at the lawyers table, I am more of lawyers than most of them, and I will sit at the attorney’s table anytime I am in court.

You went to school at Northwestern so maybe you took a trip to the Daley Center and saw how informally the courts work: they still use carbon paper and the lawyers are entrusted to write up the judges orders accurately or the entire system would come to a halt. I’ve done pro bono divorces from an agency there and see how many of the paid attorneys ask.

He is there to interpret the law not to make law. Why does know one get this? This man , and yes he is just a man , not a god as he may think. He needs to put on probation until the Illinois courts review this mans conduct.

Guess what Mr. Lopez it’s your turn to have your day in court, how does it feel????

The second issue is the jail system in this country. I would think a majority of our citizens in this country have no desire for properly/humanely run jail/prison facilities. They believe prisoners shouldn’t be “coddled.” Dangerous prisons have become such a cliche that anal rape becomes accepted as a feature of daily prison life. In back of this is the false belief that they and no one they know could ever go to jail and a bloodthirstyness for punishment inflamed by the MSM and DA’s career building. Ignored is the creation of an alarming recidivism rate and a felony rate that leads the industrialized world. This is not a coincidence.

Link: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1553279,CST-NWS-lawyer01.article

Lopez never offered a hint that he was angry with Murphy, and he hadn’t previously threatened to lock her up, she said. In his order, Lopez wrote he was holding Murphy in “direct civil contempt” for “ignoring this court['s] direct instruction” about what to include in her document.

Heck, I thought Revelations were chapters in the Bible.