"LAGBAC is one of the largest and most well-respected LGBTQ+ bar organizations in the country. Its members include lawyers, judges and other elected officials, law students, and other legal professionals."
Posted on 10/16/2021 2:47:25 PM PDT by Brookhaven
A judge late Friday issued a temporary restraining order against the Chicago police union president, prohibiting him from making public statements that encourage members not to report their COVID-19 vaccine status to the city.
Cook County Circuit Judge Cecilia Horan ruled there was potential irreparable harm if local Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara persisted in making such statements. City attorneys argued they were tantamount to him advocating “sedition” and “anarchy” because he was directing members to disobey an order from their superiors.
It was the latest twist in the high-stakes standoff between Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the local police union over the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. With both sides accusing the other of illegally risking the safety of the city over the issue, the fight shifted into the courts Friday with dueling lawsuits.
Lightfoot asked the courts to intervene after the union chief told members to disobey Friday’s deadline to report their vaccine status. The local Fraternal Order of Police in turn filed its own lawsuit against the city, mayor and police Superintendent David Brown that seeks to force arbitration over the matter.
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Making a statement, as in “freedom of speech?”
Except for provable slander or libel, we USED to have freedom of speech in pre-Biden America.
How is this not a blatant violation of the First Amendment?
Tell the Judge to KMA. Dare her to do anything about it.
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Maybe public employee unions (especially police & fire) should re-evaluate their support of Democrats
Lightfoot thinks the “I am woman, hear me roar” digging in her heels and being an autocrat route, is going to work. She is going to end up a basket case.
This is one small front in the war for freedom. The judge needs to experience what can happen to those who champion dictatorship.
She can call the cops on him!
She's a wise grootina.
"LAGBAC is one of the largest and most well-respected LGBTQ+ bar organizations in the country. Its members include lawyers, judges and other elected officials, law students, and other legal professionals."
“Maybe Democrats will re-evaluate their support of public employee unions?”
Maybe the employees will re-evaluate their support of DemonRats.
Apparently the judges have unlimited power now. If it were me, I would go out and mock this judge publicly by violating her dictate and dare them to have him arrested. This is a direct violation of his 1st amendment rights. No judge can do that. What’s next, order him to change his opinion?
Horan (Democratic Party) ran for re-election for joodge of the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois. She won in the general "election" on November 6, 2018.
So she’s an LGBTQ stooge, too.
That's considered an illegal work stoppage and would get the union sanctioned heavily.
It isn't unheard of for a judge to knowingly issue an order they know full well cannot be enforced but they also know that it takes time and money for lawyers to file appeals out the wazoo to find that fact out.
I would make a statement every morning, silence for 60 seconds. This news story is as powerful as anything he could say.
This judge is a prime example of why tar and feathers were invented.
So, anything a judge says is against the law, is against law.?? How does that work.?
Judge needs to sleep with the fishes.
It is actually more ridiculous than that. The union president never called for any job action. He just pointed out that if the city puts the unvaccinated police officers on no-pay status then there would be a shortage of police working. The city is threatening a lock-out of union police officers unless they disclose their vaccination status.
That's a lock-out by management if the city decides to stop paying union employees who decline to provide that information, not a strike or slowdown by the police.
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