Ohio's one of those shitheaded states where judges are elected in good old fashioned, down-home, head-to-head elections. That can result in abundant political hackery, but my experience with Ohio municipal court judges was 100% positive. It's a tough job, and you really have to want it to run in the first place. Dipshits and incompetents generally don't want anything to do with a municipal court judgeship.
I voted for a lot of Republicans over the years, and p. much all of them were Ohio judges. If someone could manage a docket, handle trial and pretrial processes smoothly, and genuinely cared about giving litigants a level playing field, that was more than enough for me.
The jibhead part of this story is that it makes Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor look like a good guy. Ohio has a procedure by which litigants can petition the CJ to disqualify a trial court judge from a pending case. Happened to us once. We got a big verdict in a personal injury case against a power line company, and defense counsel wanted to disqualify the judge from deciding a post-trial motion that could have added a ton of additional money to the judgment.
We won that one.
O'Connor's suspension order in this case was the right thing to do, but it masks the fact that she's a giant piece of shit, a bought-and-paid-for stooge of the insurance industry and big business. Back in the day, insurance companies were very successful at getting the Ohio legislature to pass toart refoarm legislation, only to have the Ohio Supreme Court and its 4-3 ordinary people favoring majority shoot it down on a variety of state constitutional grounds. O'Connor's election to the Supreme Court in 2002, financed with fucktons of insurance industry money, was the beginning of the end for that state of affairs.
So yeah. Fuck Judge Pinkey Carr for: (1) being an asshole in her own right; and (2) making Maureen O'Connor appear to be a non-asshole.
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