IL Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Rochford up to her wacky shenanigans again!
- Sigiloso1776
- Feb 13
- 4 min read
Updated: Feb 14
You may remember the nuke that Mom-at-Arms dropped in 2023 on the Illinois Supreme Court (article here, it caused shockwaves). In short, the Illinois gun ban case was before the court and two newly seated Justices (Rochford and O’Brien) were bankrolled by the main defendants of the case (the governor, the speaker of the house and the president of the senate). They were also bankrolled by Moms Demand Action and endorsed by other anti-gun groups. They refused to recuse from the case over the conflicts of interest, and ultimately Justice Rochford issued the opinion to uphold the gun ban, which was of no surprise.
Soon after, Mom-at-Arms revealed that Justice Rochford, after being sworn in in 2022, actually attended a lobbying event held by Moms Demand Action for the very law she would later uphold (article here). She continued later to “violate” judicial ethics by being the keynote speaker of a Lake County Democratic Party fundraiser event, which of course drew criticism. There’s a lot of other things she’s done as well, such as get sued for legal malpractice (when she was a real estate attorney) by one of her clients. She lost the case. Below is a nice little article on all the shenanigans she’s pulled:
But wait, she’s not done! What just happened on 1/28/26?
An ethics complaint has been filed with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) against Illinois Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Rochford, accusing her of making a false statement to evade service of a court summons.
The complaint, submitted on January 30, 2026, by Edward “Coach” Weinhaus, stems from a Cook County Circuit Court case alleging due process violations by a lower court judge and the Illinois Judges Association (IJA).
According to the ARDC filing, process server Darryl Ellis swears Rochford answered her door at her Lake Forest home on January 28, 2026, when he attempted to deliver a summons package with discovery requests. Ellis, authorized by Legal Document Management, Inc., explained the court-issued document. Rochford allegedly responded, “I’m not home,” before closing the door. The ARDC complaint states this was a deliberate falsehood intended to impede a judicial proceeding presided over by the Hon. Caroline Kate Moreland of the Cook County Circuit Court, violating attorney duties on honesty, particularly as to the integrity of judges.
The discovery summons relates to Case No. 2025CH10526, Weinhaus v. Scannicchio et al., a verified complaint filed in October 2025 seeking damages for alleged constitutional violations. In the suit, Weinhaus accuses the IJA, a Business League under the IRS Code, of ruling on member-related cases to help their members rather than offering litigants due process through a disinterested judiciary. Rochford is named as one of 12 respondents in discovery, not a defendant, in the complaint due to her relationship with the IJA, to provide information potentially linked to a RICO investigation by Weinhaus’ attorney, Adam Florek.
YIKES!!!!!!!! And in case you didn’t know who the head of the Illinois Judges Association is, you guessed it!
This woman is beyond corrupt and smirks at ethics. To make matters worse, guess who’s on the commission (as an alternate chair) for the committee who fields judicial complaints against judges and decides what to do with them? Why Justice Rochford, of course.
Now this makes MUCH more sense regarding the outcome:
Complaints to the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board over perceived conflicts of interest by two Illinois Supreme Court justices are being closed.
Last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave $1 million each to two then-Supreme Court Justice candidates, Elizabeth Rochford and Mary O’Brien. They won their seats on the high court and later refused to recuse themselves in a challenge of Illinois’ gun ban, legislation Pritzker signed.
Justices Rochford and O’Brien were also on the bench and part of the majority decision in the case challenging the Pretrial Fairness Act that upheld no-cash bail, another law Pritzker signed.
In March, Kenneth Mayle, an electrical engineer living in Chicago, filed a complaint with the Judicial Inquiry Board, a panel of members appointed by the governor and the Supreme Court to oversee the judiciary.
“It just didn’t sound right what’s going on, and I found there’s a process to file complaints, so I did so feeling like you can’t have the governor essentially giving justices money for their campaigns … and being essentially the defendant on something they're ruling,” Mayle told The Center Square. “There’s conflict of interest there.”
The JIB is created by the Illinois Constitution to “receive or initiate complaints concerning a Judge or Associate Judge, and file complaints with the Court Commission” and “to charge the Judge or Associate Judge with willful misconduct in office, persistent failure to perform his duties, or other conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice or that brings the judicial office into disrepute.”
Quick update. A commenter on article made this meme and it’s too good regarding this story LOL
This is hilarious, given that "I'm not home" (delivered at one's own door) is a self-executing falsehood.
Worse yet… Nothing will be done about this by those in power. Every instance, and every moment that this is allowed, is in affront to the constitution and the people.