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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nBush allegedly sent emails with these statements to opposing lawyers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 \u201cI strenuously object to you being a lowlife bottom-feeder, who suborns perjury, breaks the IRPC and extorts your own client.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 \u201cIf it means your fat ass and your suborning perjury piece of s- -t daughter [who is one of the lawyers] have to get an order of protection against me, we will be in court \u2026 one way or the other. You are all child abusing filth, all of you. Bring it. When the justice system fails, I will have my recourse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his answer, Bush said statements about the opposing lawyers were \u201centirely truthful and accurate.\u201d He also said the statements were made while the lawyers were \u201cpurposely countermanding\u201d the remand hearing mandated by an appeals court. \u201cDomestic relations attorneys are well known amongst the bar and the public to be bottom-feeders,\u201d he wrote in the answer. Bush said he has \u201cspoken to ethics attorneys for years who note the volume of complaints they receive involving these attorneys and call these attorneys bottom-feeders themselves. Domestic relations attorneys generally graduate from third- and fourth-tier law schools and will do almost anything for money, including suborn perjury from mentally ill parents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The complaint also accuses Bush of making these statements to the judge during a hearing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 \u201cThat\u2019s why this is the clown car. You are a clown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 \u201cYou\u2019re a child abuser. I mean, honestly, I should call DCFS on you because you\u2019ve abused these children for two years. What you have done and what people like you do to people all over this country is a disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bush said many of the statements to the judge were protected First Amendment speech. Bush said the judge violated the remand order and flip-flopped on whether to grant him parenting time. Judges are \u201cno longer privileged to the normal courtesies\u201d when they abuse their power and an Illinois appeals court mandate, Bush wrote. Bush also said the judge was suffering from an \u201cundiagnosed brain tumor\u201d at the time, causing memory loss and erratic behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bush is also accused of making secret recordings of conversations during counseling sessions and with his estranged wife in violation of Illinois law. Bush said one session was recorded with the consent of the doctor, and he recorded the sessions to protect the rights of himself and his children. He also said the recordings were justified under a crime-fraud exception because he knew that the crime of perjury was being committed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bush added that parents \u201croutinely record themselves and their children to protect themselves from false allegations in kangaroo custody proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis commission is apparently lost and cannot distinguish between the cloak of authority and the cloak of corruption,\u201d Bush wrote. \u201cDomestic relations courts and their surrounding cottage industries are predatory and resemble organized crime\u2014seizing children from fit parents and then selling them back with unnecessary and unwanted \u2018services.\u2019 That is none other than child trafficking.\u201d Bush told the ABA Journal on Friday that the IARDC struck his answer that morning. The IARDC had contended in its motion to strike that Bush could not go beyond affirming or denying the allegations. Bush says he plans to file a motion for reconsideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IARDC \u201cbasically wants to scrub this off the internet,\u201d Bush says. He contends that his case is a matter of public interest, and he has a right to assert affirmative defenses in his answer to the ethics complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bush says he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer about four days after he was served with the ethics complaint, and the cost of treatment leaves no money for him to hire a lawyer. He hasn\u2019t seen his children since the diagnosis. \u201cThe only thing I care about is my kids,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s it.\u201d He is receiving chemotherapy, and his tumors may be operable. But the diagnosis carries a poor prognosis, and Bush feels some urgency to see his children again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A suburban Chicago lawyer has admitted that he called a judge a clown and an opposing lawyer a \u201clowlife bottom-feeder,\u201d but he said his comments were truthful or constitutionally protected speech. Lawyer Edwin Franklin Bush III of Des Plaines, Illinois, … Continue reading