| | Ruling on judge benefits voters |
Funny how things seem to work out in the end.
Take the case of Judge John P. Tully. Here's someone who managed to simultaneously get himself booted off the Circuit Court by voters while getting himself elected to the Illinois Appellate Court.
Don't ask us to explain it. Maybe voters were confused. Or maybe they really thought someone who's not fit to be a lower court judge would make a dandy appellate judge. We didn't. We thought he shouldn't be a judge at all, partly because of his deceptive ads that falsely claimed he had been found "highly qualified" by bar groups.
But just as we were getting used to the idea that ...
