Chad S. Beckett
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Chad S. Beckett
@csbeckett.bsky.social
Circuit Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit, Illinois.
Churchill/Lincoln/Beatles aficionado.
Urbana native born and raised.

Fiat justitia ruat caelum.
Obviously any smith song would do, but frankly that song isn’t even my third pick from that *album* using your criteria. My top three choices from Meat is Murder to disorientate baseball fans would be (with first verse lyric):
August 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
June 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
April 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thank you, Gene, for helping us laugh even in the darkest times.
February 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Not the first to notice this reality is upon us, just joining the chorus of others who have.
February 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.”

-Winston S. Churchill, 1939
February 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“We must strive to frame some system of human relations…which will no longer leave the whole life of mankind dependent on the virtues, the caprice, or the wickedness of a single man.”

Winston Spencer Churchill, August 1939.
January 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“Where a band of ferocious men rise from depths to dictatorships there is no guarantee for life, or for law, or for liberty.”

-Winston Churchill, July 7, 1934
December 16, 2023 at 3:14 PM
Any of those right?
November 4, 2023 at 1:42 AM
Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! … If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. -Abraham Lincoln, 1838
October 17, 2023 at 2:50 AM