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by John Kass
January 14, 2026
Two bar groups of Chicago lawyers—suits who suck up to the Democratic machine—are trying to silence a good common sense Judge James Brown for speaking the truth.
His sin?
He spoke to me. And once retired he wrote a column for my website JohnKassNews.com
After he was retired after 30 years in the Cook County criminal justice system Judge James Brown spoke his mind.
Let me repeat that. He was retired—no longer a judge– and I wanted my listeners and readers to benefit by his sound judgement. He spoke his mind on my podcast The Chicago Way. And he wrote a great column based on his decades of common-sense experience. He titled it “His Judgement Cometh and That Right Soon”
I chose the photograph of George Soros, the sort of thing that triggered the jacobins in my newsroom when I dared write about him years ago. No doubt this also angered the Chicago Council of Lawyers and the Cook County Bar Association—and the political bosses. I’m speculating that the column and the podcast angered Cook County Democratic chair Toni Preckwinkle and Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
In his column for John Kass News, what upset Judge Brown was all the lawfare being suffered by President Donald Trump and were the revolving door bail bond policies that emptied the jail and kept releasing repeat violent offenders who attacked and hunted the most vulnerable. If only he condemned Trump, I doubt that the liberal Cook County Bar and the left wing Chicago Council of Lawyers would have been upset.
Now the lawyers want the Illinois Supreme Court to permanently silence the good, honorable judge.
What really frosts them is that Judge Brown knows their hearts. Judges get political credits from the Democrat Party for releasing black and Latino repeat violent offenders out of Cook County Jail where they can prowl the streets looking for victims. And Boss Toni has been bragging for years about how she reduced the jail population.
But Preckwinkle, Gov. Pritzker and the worthless Chicago newspapers rarely focus on the victims of crime. The victims are minority women mostly, black women and Latino women forced by circumstance to use public transportation to get to and from work, and also that young woman many of you have heard about, Bethany Magee, who was burned alive on the CTA.
The man who allegedly burned the young woman, Lawrence Reed, had been arrested some 7O times without doing serious time. According to witnesses, after he lit her on fire he screamed “Burn bitch burn!!!”
If only Judge Brown had written an anti-Trump screed, The Democrat politicos and judges and bar associations would have left this one alone.
HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING???
Lawrence Reed had 49 prior arrests (including 10 felonies) and was arrested for setting a woman on fire in Chicago.
He allegedly SHOUTED “Burn alive b****!” pic.twitter.com/SuzEjdHlPC
— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen) November 20, 2025
This monster should have been behind bars a long time ago.
Why would they want Judge Brown silenced? Because they’re standing for re-election and the Democrats rely on votes from minority women. Without the proection of black and Latino women there would not be a Preckwinkle or a Pritzker. I have no proof Pritzker and Boss Toni have pushed back on me and Judge Brown, but I have more than 40 years of experience covering these weasels, and weasel lawyers who cozy up to powerful Democrat politicians.
Yes, I’m angry. The leftist mob supporting Soros tried to shut me up when I was at “the paper” which is why I started johnkassnews.com. I don’t want it to happen to anyone else.
My dear friend Thom Serafin joined WGN producer Jeff Carlin and we talked about the judge when the arrogance of the pharisees on the latest edition of The Chicago Way podcast.
Judge Brown was a private citizen when he wrote his column for me and appeared on the podcast. The very bar groups asking for removal from the bench found him fair and impartial in prior evaluations. There was zero chance they would have tried silencing him if his column was anti-Trump. Now they’re passively-aggressively implying Brown was transphobic and racist. They have no shame. And they expect the Illinois Supreme Court to do their dirty work.
“But you know, I picked up the Skyline publication in my hallway of my apartment building yesterday,” Serafin said on The Chicago Way podcast. “And there’s a front-page story about a man attacking and robbing a pregnant woman in the loop while on electronic monitoring, okay? It’s a convicted felon and before the judge is over and over again, and the, you know, the state’s attorney said, please don’t let him out again. But Judge Susan Ortiz said he can go and just put a monitoring thing on him again. I mean, Judge Charles Burns said, hey, you know, this guy has violated these rules over and over again.
““And I judge like that. So unfortunately, I, you know, I think it’s ridiculous. I think it lacks the intelligence to even want to discuss it.
“And to me, it’s the First Amendment. And we need more judges to speak louder about what is and isn’t working in our system today. And less of the herd mentality that we have right now.”
Reader reaction to podcast after Jeff posted the podcast on Tuesday.
JAMES JENNINGS
Public and the citizens be damned! By the reaction of the bar association and the Preckwinkle sycophants, John, you and Judge Brown are definitely “flying over the target.” Public, they have ruled you can not carry on public transportation, you are at the mercy of the criminal animals and their judicial masters. How dare you expose it.
Susan Ortiz before being a judge was a run of the mill defense lawyer who focused on traffic tickets and misdemeanors, however she had the most qualifiers if one wants to be a Cook County Circuit Court judge, not a legal scholar, but was a Hispanic and female and Democratic backed.
Better to know the judge than to know the law. (Irish proverb.)
Enrique Diaz
A guy was just charged with shooting two individuals, one of who died, on a CTA train a couple days ago. The murderer was attempting to stab a man when a spectator pulled out a handgun to stop him. The gun holder dropped the gun and the Stabber picked it up and shot him and shot and killed the guy he was trying to stab, killing him. Not everyone carrying a gun should be allowed to carry a gun, especially if they don’t know weapon retention. Then again…maybe we need to ban knives…also.
JAMES JENNINGS
Ban vehicles in Minnesota.
George Kages
I practiced law as a Cook County trial attorney for 35 years. I can confirm that, among lawyers, very few, and I mean VERY FEW judges were considered “wise jurists.” I remember one judge who made sure that his Harvard diploma was prominently displayed in his chambers- but out on the bench, he would consistently make the worse decisions and rulings possible. We called him “the dumbest ‘smart’ person in Cook County.” Most attorneys know that judges are purely political animals, appointed for that reason and not for their legal brilliance.
The Bar associations are filled with Democrats and the boss politicians don’t want to risk their political power. So they ask the state supreme court to silence a judge who was retired. They want me silenced too. You’d think the bar associations could find a few real lawyers among them, but all they want is silence. Isn’t that how authoritarian regimes run things? With silence.
Think of the silence of the hospital burn ward.
Think of Bethany Magee.
And Pritzker and Boss Toni smirking.
Bethany MaGee is currently fighting for her life because a career criminal with 72 arrests was allowed to walk free.
He soaked her in gasoline and set her on fire on a Chicago train while saying “Burn b*tch.”
This monster should have been behind bars a long time ago.
Judges… pic.twitter.com/MPDZZjk4z8
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 23, 2025
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The Honorable Judge James R. Brown, now retired, worked for 30 years in the Cook County Criminal Justice System. He began his career as an Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney. He then worked for 8 years as a Criminal Defense Attorney. Brown was then elected to the Cook County Circuit Court in 2002 serving as a Circuit Court Judge for 18 years before retiring.
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