Tuesday’s judicial election results in the notorious Illinois county amounted to a “cataclysmic” defeat for the county’s powerful personal-injury lawyers: “I feel like a Munchkin who just came out and saw the house drop on the witch,” said [longtime prosecutor Don] Weber, who ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the Supreme Court in 1992. “A lot of us are going around today saying, ‘Did the house really drop on the witch?’” (Paul Hampel, “Karmeier win means big changes in Madison County, prosecutor says”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 3). For others who might wish to celebrate, here’s a song page. (& see PointOfLaw coverage, here, here, here, here, and here). More: Madison County Record, Nov. 5, Nov. 7.
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