Article: Judge says politics at heart of appellate court's moves.(News)

Byline: Sean D. Hamill Daily Herald Staff Writer

Recently elected Supreme Court Justice Bob Thomas is being accused of playing politics and booting an appellate court judge off the bench by giving him a Hobson's choice - amid several moves being called unprecedented in the court's history.

Justice Michael Colwell, a 2nd District appellate court judge for the last seven years in Elgin, said Tuesday he was reassigned as a trial judge in Kane County because he refused Thomas' appointment of him to Thomas' former elected seat on the appellate court.

It was one of several dominos that eventually led to Thomas appointing three new judges to the ...

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