Legal experts on Tuesday urged Illinois voters to disregard the unprecedented blizzard of advertising focused on next month's election of judges.
"We are so concerned about the reckless, sometimes ruthless number of politically motivated attacks that have been occurring on our judiciary," said Timothy Tomasik of the Chicago Bar Association.
However, leaders of lawyer groups and the judges’ association say that's the wrong way to look at this election."Judges should be evaluated based upon how they do their job, how they render decisions. Are those decisions based upon the law and the facts?" said Judge Eileen O’Neill burke of the Illinois Judges Association.
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