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Karmeier calls retention challenge "smear campaign of the worst sort" in presenting IJA award to Wexstten

By Bethany Krajelis | Monday, Dec 15, 2014 @ 3:18pm

KarmeierIn presenting an award to a recently-retired judge Friday, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier briefly talked about the “last minute ambush” on his November retention election.Karmeier narrowly survived a $2 million campaign against his bid for a second term behind the high court bench that he said came from “a handful of lawyers from Chicago and from some other states who stood to