I wanted to let everyone know that Mr. Amu has prayed (he is very religious) and has let Spirit guide him. Which of course means he will be out at the Daley Center every day he can (and the ARDC, I hope) protesting the goings on in the Cook County Court System and in Illinois and the nation everywhere the law is X but what the courts are doing is Y.
photo (c) Lanre Amu, copyright 2014, all rights reserved
He is happy and proud as a clam alerting dozens and dozens of attorneys to the plight of himself, myself and Ken--attorneys that speak out and want TRUTH, HONESTY, JUSTICE and INTEGRITY in our court system are being made martyrs and posterchildren by the ARDC. People who go to court, read my blog, contact me about what the law X is and how they got Y are in direct support of this and the blog.
He needs a poster, and is working on it. I suggested Suspended Attorney working for TRUTH, HONEST, JUSTICE and INTEGRITY needs YOUR outcries and WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION
I am sure he will come up with something appropriate.
Favorite quotes from his brief:
Nothing like quoting a politician trying to get into office is an activist for change, but when the butt is in the chair:
"hindsight now appears to be mere double speak geared toward winning the peoples’ votes
to get on the Illinois Supreme Court:”I represent working families as their lawyer,,
People want Courts that don’t favor the rich and the politically connected. They want
Judges who have commonsense and a commitment to fairness . . . “-Thomas L.
Kilbride. With all due respect, an authentic man should be a man of his Words. The
ruling in my case is not consistent with Justice Kilbride’s words"
Attorneys who are in the courtrooms everyday are in the best position to know what is
going on in those courtrooms. In over 15 years of practice in our courtrooms, I have
never seen an Illinois Supreme Court Justice or the ARDC inside the trial courtrooms I
practice in-they are not in the courtroom trenches to know first hand what is going on
there. Attorneys who have first hand experience of the courtrooms occurrences are thus
best positioned to police judicial corruption therein because: they are trained in legalese,
they can decode legalese unlike the uninitiated public not trained in the nuances of the
law, they are in the courtrooms virtually on a daily basis, and they can see what an
individual with a single case in court cannot easily see or know. The system of regulation
of lawyers should be reformed to remove lawyer regulation away from the ambit of the
judiciary - i.e., the Illinois Supreme Court Justices via ARDC. There should be complete
independence in the two professions vis-a-vis the operation of Our Court system. If
attorneys cannot effectuate reform by speaking out without risking their law licenses and
livelihood, then there is no incentive to expose judicial corruption and improve the
system of Administration of Justice in Illinois Courts. Without lawyers’ input, the Judges
are thus left to police their own corruption-but experience has shown that the judges are
unable to police their own corruption-they simply cover it up; the lawyers in the best
position to see corruption and expose it cannot due to the risk of suspension or
disbarment; the Feds who have the responsibility and authority to prosecute judicial
corruption are neither in the courtrooms at all times nor involved in the nuances of any
case to know what is happening; the media will not expose judicial corruption
fortunately for Mr. Amu, many cases (except ARDC trial court cases, which they LOVE to cite (and a lawyer is not supposed to cite those, but the ARDC does) the SCOTUS cases agree with whistleblowing lawyers.
In fact, many states have Whistleblower laws just for attys, but I hear they are mostly ignored. sigh.
"so no one is policing judicial
corruption. Judicial Corruption is not effectively addressed in the appellate review
process. Experience has shown that it is simply excused and covered up. Judicial
corruption in Illinois is effectively a closed System. Judicial Corruption Is the 500
Pound Gorilla in the Room Which Everyone Ignores. Who Will Bell the Cat?"
I will get more quotes later and publish the entire brief. I suggested he also upload Ken's brief to SCOTUS because he did such a good, well researched job he is a great candidate for argument before the US Supreme Court on the rights of lawyers and I want to be right there.
JoAnne
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