Does the Constitution Really Take a Back Seat to Politics and Money In The Illinois Courts?
If You Paid An Illinois Supreme Court Candidate a Million Dollars, Would You Expect Something in Return?
12/15/2005 8:01:00 AM
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To: National Desk
Contact: Amy J. Schneider, 309-452-7466
NORMAL, Ill., Dec. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On April 20, 2005 the Illinois Supreme Court removed alleged racist judge, Albert (A.G.) Webber, from an Illinois woman's case involving the segregation of her family based on race. Amy Schneider, a mother of five, has spent over three years in Macon County's probate court trying to regain possession of her two oldest children, Kaela Elizabeth Sliney-Schneider and Joshua Matthew Sliney- Schneider, both Caucasian.
According to a September 6, 2005 news release, Republican Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Thomas was installed as the new Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. Justice Thomas was sworn in as Chief by Justice Charles E. Freeman, the most senior member of the Court, following a posh reception and dinner at the Itasca Country Club near Wheaton Illinois.
"It's serious that after the Republicans took over, in a bizarre twist Judge Webber was immediately reinstated to my case," says Schneider. "It has become a sad joke where constitutional justice takes a back seat to politics, money and racism."
According to court records, Schneider filed her civil rights complaint, number 05-2174, in United States District Court at Urbana on August 25, 2005, which is currently pending. Webber and two other Macon County judges are already defendants in that federal case.
"I have amended my complaint and will ask that Justices Robert Thomas, Rita Garman, Sue Myerscough and Judge Mitchell Shick be added as Defendants," said Schneider. "As a last resort, I will petition the federal court for emergency injunctive relief to revive my parental rights."
Schneider lives in Normal, Illinois with her three younger Black children. Court records show that non-parent Karen Coates, San Angelo Texas, has paid Decatur Illinois lawyers over $250,000 in the case. The State Court docket sheet shows Defendant Webber is repeatedly blocking Schneider's parental petitions and that notice has been given to Justices Thomas, Garman, Myerscough and Judge Shick.
"The constitutional due process violations are simple and clear; and through plain criminal duplicity brothers and sisters remain separated by race," says Schneider. "So far the Illinois Supreme Court officials have responded by hiding in their high offices and refusing to deal with Albert Webber, or telling me as a fit parent that I am wrong and why," Schneider said. Our Court system in Illinois needs an enema, Schneider quips.
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