WI Supreme Court Justice David Prosser to retire

I’ll admit I’m not “choked” up by this. Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser announced Wednesday that he’s retiring on July 31 after nearly 18 years on the high court — including some of its most turbulent — and four decades in public life. The retirement hands GOP Gov. Scott…

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser Set To Retire

According to the Wisconsin State Journal, Justice Prosser is retiring in July: State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, a conservative whose opinions helped solidify a series of controversial changes in state law in recent years but was also known for his physical confrontation with a colleague, announced Wednesday he will…

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More incivility and anger from David Prosser

I’m beginning to truly believe Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser has a very serious anger management problem and should seek help. Curiously, there’s been no criticism of Justice Prosser from the usual suspects in the Right Wing Outrage Brigade, but I’m willing to bet cash money that if Justice…

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David Prosser’s Recusal

Now that the right wing echo chamber has put enough pressure on Sheriff Dave Mahoney that he has handed off the \"Prosser Choking\" investigation to his chief deputy. While Sheriff Mahoney probably would not have done the investigation himself anyway, the aggressiveness and fake outrage from the right was out…

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David Prosser’s explanation…

The right wing blogosphere are besides themselves trying desperately to come up with any explanation, however implausible, as to why Republican Justice David Prosser attacked Justice Bradley. Instead of trying to promote a fantasy, I decided to get the story from Justice Prosser himself. Surprisingly he went on record for…

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David Prosser behaving badly

Congratulations, Wisconsin….here’s your newly reelected Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court: [A]n argument that occurred before the court’s release of a decision upholding a bill to curtail the collective bargaining rights of public employees culminated in a physical altercation in the presence of other justices. Bradley purportedly asked Prosser to…

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Waukesha’s Republican County Clerk “finds” 7,500 more votes for David Prosser

UPDATE: Having watched the news conference where the “discovery” of these missing votes was announced, I can’t help but wonder why it took something in the neighborhood of 29 hours after these votes were “discovered” for Kathy Nickolaus to make the announcement regarding the votes. What’s more, how is it…

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The Rise and Fall of David Prosser

Much has been written here and elsewhere about how about Scott Walker and Scooter Jensen’s favorite judge: David Prosser. Since there is always new and exciting information coming through, here are some new(and old/uncovered) Prosser stories. 1. Here is a history of one of David Prosser’s more extreme positions from…

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The cruel and unusual candidacy of David Prosser

I wanted to expand on Zach\'s post pointing out that Prosser’s home town paper reversed their endorsement of him. For one because I wanted to use this title for a story on him and secondly, because the incompetence of Prosser can not be stressed enough! After the Appleton Post Crescent…

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So where’s David Prosser’s “judicial temperament?”

Here’s more of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser exhibiting his “judicial temperament,” courtesy of the folks at One Wisconsin Now:

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