Wirepoints has an outstanding piece about the political assassination of Judge James R. Brown. While most of America is rejecting cancel culture, it’s alive and well in many parts of the Land of Pritzker, but especially in deep blue cesspools like Cook County.
Those in leadership there LOVE to talk about diversity, unless you have an opposing viewpoint.
The cancel mob lives on. The latest example is in Illinois courts. There, the mob could hardly have been more brazen, defrocking a judge for daring to write about one of their favorite weapons – “lawfare” – abuse of the legal system for political or social goals.
James R. Brown was a 20-year Cook County judge who retired in 2020. He was reinstated as a judge on December 11, 2025 to handle traffic cases for a term of about a year. Reinstatements like that of retired judges are common to fill temporary vacancies on the bench.
It turned out that Brown had authored an article in September 2025, when he was not a judge, listing examples of lawfare. The list is pretty typical of instances alleged by conservatives of lawfare waged by the left in recent years. Brown’s article also cheers what he sees as a current trend against lawfare and progress bringing its wrongdoers to justice.
OMG! No wonder he didn’t write that earlier in his career! That would have been a career ender in the political echo chamber of Cook County.
Enter two left-leaning lawyer groups: the Chicago Council of Lawyers and the Cook County Bar Association. Each wrote to the Illinois Supreme Court demanding that it terminate Brown’s reinstatement.
“Judge Brown spouted conspiracy theories and propaganda that pervades right wing media in this country and expressed hostility and threats to people who hold political and legal views contrary to those he expressed,” wrote the Council. “The stated views reflected bias and prejudice on race, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. The statements in question are wildly inappropriate for a member of the judiciary to be making,” they said.
Conspiracy theories and propaganda?
“Unquestionably,” the Cook County Bar Association wrote, Brown’s column not only ran afoul of the judicial code of conduct “but also damage the public trust that our esteemed judiciary so preciously uphold.” The association cited Brown’s examples of lawfare as proof of his inability judge fairly and impartially. What Brown wrote about “George Floyd, systemic racism, foreign nationals, issues related to gender identity, LGBTQIA+individuals, and political affiliations are blatantly disrespectful, insensitive, harmful, and foul,” said the association.
Blatantly insensitive? It’s the rule of law, not rule of feelings.
The Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court obliged by throwing Brown off the bench Jan. 26 in a one-sentence order that provides no explanation, reasoning or indication of fair process whatsoever.
But hold on.
What “conspiracies theories” did Brown repeat? What’s “disrespectful, insensitive, harmful, and foul” in what Brown wrote? What conflicts with the Code of Judicial Conduct (even assuming it applies to somebody not on the bench at the time of publication)?
Read Brown’s column yourself for the answer, copied in its entirety below, which was published by John Kass, a conservative columnist.
Read it honestly and you’ll see that it’s 100% accurate on facts. Brown’s only claim that’s arguable about a conspiracy theory is on whether ballot boxes and mail-in ballots stole the 2020 election. But there, Brown merely said “some say” that happened. That’s true.
By no means can the Illinois Code of Judicial Conduct be read to prohibit articles like Brown’s. About all it says that’s on point, in a preamble, is that judges must “carefully monitor their social media accounts to ensure that no communication can be reasonably be interpreted as suggesting a bias or prejudice…or an absence of judicial independence, impartiality, integrity or competence.” Other preamble language generally expect judges to “maintain and enhance confidence in the legal system.” It covers judges and judicial candidates, but says nothing about judges who are in retirement, as Brown was when he wrote his column.
There’s no evidence or allegation anywhere that Brown’s political views biased any of his rulings. As reported by CWB, in 2014, the last time Brown ran for retention, every bar association in the county recommended him for retention. The Chicago Council of Lawyers, which is now calling for his removal, said he was “considered to be a diligent judge with a good demeanor. He is reported to be prompt in starting his call, and is praised for being fair to all parties. The Council finds him Qualified for retention to his current position.”
The left loved Donald Trump until he dared to run for President in 2016.
The code also says that judges should be encouraged to educate the public about the legal system. “Judges are uniquely qualified to engage in extrajudicial activities that concern the law, the legal system, and the administration of justice, such as by speaking, writing, teaching, or participating in scholarly research projects.”
Didn’t Brown’s column honor all of that?
The primary point of the article is to celebrate the recent trend away from lawfare. Far from shaming the legal system, Brown says it’s working. His column begins by saying, “The Court of Common Sense is finally back in Session after far too many years of adjournment.” It ends with this: “Wherefore, the Court of Common Sense can reasonably conclude that the American system of Justice is overwhelmingly rejecting the use of “Lawfare” as a political weapon much to the chagrin of George Soros and his sycophants. It made that case nicely, whether you agree with it or not, offering just the kind of education judges are encouraged to provide.
Special contempt should be directed to articles on this matter by Injustice Watch and the Chicago Sun-Times, both being leftist. About Brown and his column, Injustice Watch wrote this: “He described progressive prosecutors like former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx as ‘Soros-funded’ — a widely used antisemitic trope centered on Jewish billionaire George Soros — and invoked several conspiracy theories popular across the political right, like Fauci lies and Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
Seriously? It’s many of Fauci’s claims about Covid and the left’s claims that the laptop was a Russian plant that have been completely debunked.
It’s vile and borders on defamation to claim that criticisms of George Soros are antisemetic. Countless Jews and Jewish organizations across America have slammed Soros and the radically left candidates and causes he supports. Not coincidentally, the cancel mob at the Chicago Tribune succeeded in getting John Kass fired based on the same charge about Soros and antisemitism — a depraved charge, as we described earlier.
And guess who wrote a Chicago Sun-Times “news” story about Brown’s termination? Injustice Watch’s own Melissa Dai. In the Sun-Times, she repeated the baseless smears as matters of certain fact. Brown’s column, she also wrote, “echoed far-right rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Among other topics, he entertained the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, denounced the murders of U.S. citizens by ‘illegal aliens’ and criticized ‘Soros-funded’ progressive prosecutors.”
What a monumental testimony to the left’s treachery and hypocrisy this is. Judge Brown damaged the public trust “that our esteemed judiciary so preciously upholds,” wrote the Chicago Council of Lawyers smugly. No, it’s those who cancelled him who did precisely that.
The Court of Common Sense is finally back in Session after far too many years of adjournment. This Honorable Court hereby declares to all the good, decent, fair-minded and loyal readers of the legendary columnist John Kass and to anyone else who is interested, that there is again “Probable Cause” for renewed faith in the American Justice system.
Justice awaits those who brazenly and viciously demonized the 77 million Trump supporters. Accountability, in one form or another, is coming to the George Soros-funded progressive prosecutors who waged “lawfare” against President Trump. Prosecutors engaging in lawfare sent shockwaves not only through the legal community but also through our system of justice.
As President Trump said so many times during the campaign, “the only thing that stands between You and Them, is Me”. That statement was spot-on accurate.
It reminds me of a famous quote from one of the greatest movies ever made. In the movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Warden Norton’s corruption scheme has been revealed, the authorities are closing in on him, and he is about to be arrested. The camera pans to a picture of a quote hanging on the warden’s office wall, “HIS JUDGEMENT COMETH and that RIGHT SOON”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the evidence shows that the scales of justice have tipped, the tables have turned, and Judgement Day is Coming.
First, the ever-resilient American People have endured and survived the Obama, and Biden/Harris administrations and their inane policies.
We outlived the draconian Covid Lockdowns, and the Fauci lies.
We have persevered despite repeated attempts to censor our speech.
We watched two politically contrived and bogus impeachments.
We witnessed the freakish escapades of Hunter Biden, courtesy of his “laptop from hell.”
Inconceivably, a bag of cocaine was found at the Whitehouse.
Social Media platforms manipulated our online searches.
Mail-in ballots and drop boxes, some say, were used to steal a Presidential Election.
The January 6th Committee findings were so partisan based and erroneous that President Biden was compelled to issue a preemptive pardon to all committee members.
We tragically lost 13 U.S. service members in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Statues were erected in honor of 8 time convicted felon George Floyd.
In the summer of 2020, the BLM riots caused more than $1 billion dollars of damage.
Several major cities defunded their police departments.
Many prominent voices were canceled for voicing their opinions and many of our institutions were falsely accused of systemic racism.
Biological men were allowed to participate in women’s sports and allowed to use their bathrooms and locker rooms. Tampons were put in boys’ bathrooms at some schools.
A United States Supreme Court nominee could not articulate the definition of ‘Woman” at her confirmation hearing.”
The Biden Administration allowed millions of undocumented illegal immigrants into our country.
Deadly fentanyl, coming through our southern border, caused tens of thousands of deaths.
American citizens have been senselessly murdered by illegal aliens.
Conservative Supreme Court Justices have been doxed.
A Democrat aide filmed himself having sex in a Senate hearing room.
A transgender activist went topless at a Whitehouse event.
American citizens suffered through crippling inflation.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Biden’s watch.
The Supreme Court’s “Dobbs” decision (abortion) was illegally leaked, and no person has ever been held accountable. On several occasions President Biden fell down, shook hands with invisible people and wandered off aimlessly at events and was unable to answer questions without a teleprompter.
Democrats refused to hold a primary after Biden withdrew from the 2024 Presidential race. President Biden was investigated for illegally possessing classified documents. A Special Prosecutor declined to charge him, concluding in part, that he was an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Americans watched President Trump get shot on live television at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
But the most serious and dangerous threat ever directed at the American system of Justice is the use of lawfare by the Left. Lawfare is defined as a strategic use of the legal system as a tool to achieve a political objective. Lawfare has been waged by Soros-funded prosecutors and has had a chilling effect on our justice system. Using the law to destroy your political opponent or using the law to thwart the will of the People is un-American, unjust, unbecoming, untoward and illegal.
The most notable examples of Left’s use of lawfare include Colorado Secretary of State and attorney Jena Griswold sued to keep President Trump off the Colorado ballot in the 2024 Presidential Election. Griswold’s futile efforts resulted in a unanimous 9 to 0 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court (Trump v Anderson) prohibiting Colorado and the remaining 49 states from removing President Trump from the ballot.
Soros-funded and Trump-hating New York Attorney General Letitia James sued President Trump for civil fraud. The flimsy case was a blatant attempt by AG James to bankrupt President Trump and keep him off the campaign trail. With the assistance of Leftist Judge Arthur Engeron, President Trump was found liable, and Engeron imposed an unprecedented $465 million civil fine. Recently, the New York Court of Appeals vacated the fine because it violated the 8th Amendment which prohibits the imposition of excessive fines. Ironically, Letitia James is currently under investigation by the Justice Department for mortgage fraud.
Next, Soros-funded New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted President Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. With the assistance of conflicted Judge Juan Merchan, the case resulted in a conviction on all counts. However, the overwhelming consensus in the legal community is that this case will eventually be overturned on appeal.
According to Bloomberg News more than 320 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump Administration this year alone. Through the use of lawfare the Left is hellbent on stopping President Trump from implementing his agenda.
Foxx deliberately ignored her oath of office. Foxx refused to prosecute felony retail theft cases unless the value of the merchandise exceeded $1,000.00. Illinois law requires that the value of the stolen merchandise exceeds $300.00 to make it a felony.
Most remarkably, Foxx allowed Jussie Smollett to get away with a hate crime hoax that stunned the nation. The case ultimately ended in the Illinois Supreme Court overturning Smollett’s conviction not because the evidence of Smollett’s guilt was insufficient but due to a legal technicality.
However, some good did come out of the Smollett hoax fiasco. The much-maligned Chicago Police Department Detective Division conducted a thorough and fair investigation. Their textbook investigation exposed Smollett’s lies for the nation to see.
Retired Illinois Appellate Court Justice Sheila O’Brien, in a capacity as a private citizen, helped to expose and correct the injustice inflicted by Kim Foxx.
Judge Michael Toomin (now deceased), a widely respected Jurist, made a courageous ruling and reinstated the case that Foxx dismissed. That decision, did not sit well with the Democrat party and Judge Toomin was targeted for defeat in his retention election by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Despite those nefarious efforts, Judge Toomin was successfully retained.
Special Prosecutor Dan Webb, one of the finest trial lawyers in America, and his team did an outstanding job presenting the evidence. Webb prosecuted the case “pro bono.” Smollett Trial Court Judge James Linn, one of very best judges to ever wear a robe, conducted a fair and impartial trial.
Regrettably, Smollett was not held to account legally, but fortunately the Court of Public Opinion rendered a very negative verdict against him.
Some of the most prominent Soros-funded prosecutors have also met a bad fate.
Soros-funded Baltimore prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, was convicted of perjury and is no longer a prosecutor.
Soros-funded San Francisco prosecutor Chesa Boudin was recalled and removed from office by voters halfway through his term.
Los Angeles County and Soros-funded prosecutor George Gascon lost his reelection bid in 2024.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who engaged in lawfare, was disqualified from the Trump election interference case. She was ordered to pay $54,000 in attorney fees and was found to have violated the Georgia Open Records Act. Willis was also humiliated in front of a nationwide audience after it was revealed that she hired her lover to prosecute a complex criminal case against President Trump and others though he had no prior criminal law experience. That case has since been dismissed.
Former prosecutor and current U.S. Senator from California Adam Schiff is being investigated for mortgage fraud.
Former Soros-funded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner resigned from office in 2023 and was required to complete a diversion program for misusing public funds.
Former Soros-funded U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins from the District of Massachusetts resigned from office after she committed ethical violations and her license to practice law was suspended.
Hillsborough County and Soros-funded State Attorney Andrew Warren was removed from office by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after he refused to enforce valid existing law relating to restrictions on abortion and gender affirming care.
Finally, Kim Foxx chose not to run for reelection. Additionally, on December 1, 2024, Foxx’s last day in office, the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission suspended her law license for failing to complete mandatory continuing legal education requirements.
Wherefore, the Court of Common Sense can reasonably conclude that the American system of Justice is overwhelmingly rejecting the use of “Lawfare” as a political weapon much to the chagrin of George Soros and his sycophants.
Paraphrasing another line from that great movie The Shawshank Redemption and so aptly stated by Morgan Freeman’s character “Red,”“It feels like we have crawled through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness we can’t even imagine, but we came out clean on the other side.”
