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“Can a suspended Cook County judge return to the bench after being declared legally insane at the time she shoved a sheriff’s deputy in 2012?
For the first time in Illinois, attorneys on the case say, a judicial disciplinary panel has begun tackling the question of whether a judge whose psychotic episodes can apparently be controlled through medication should be allowed to return to the bench.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Steve Schmadeke / Chicago Tribune:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-28/news/chi-judge-wants-back-on-bench-after-insanity-ruling-20140328_1_judge-cynthia-brim-traffic-court-call-judicial-inquiry-board
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She has a law degree. It is not like she will be put on the street. Plenty of firms would take a former judge.
Poll results are surprising. I guess she should run for Senate… where she might very well fit in.
Seriously though, her decisions affect the lives of thousands of people before her.
I’m in medical school. Trust me, getting through training and education on this level doesn’t preclude the insane.