Justice David Prosser: soft on pedophile priest

A few days ago, Jeff highlighted the fact Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser failed to protect children from a pedophile priest in 1979, when Prosser was serving as Outagamie County District Attorney. The Greater Wisconsin Committee has a new TV ad out highlighting Prosser’s failure to act and protect…

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David Prosser blames Shirley Abrahamson for him calling her a “b–ch”

In announcing their endorsement of Justice David Prosser for another term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the folks over at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited Prosser’s “even temperament” as part of their rationale for their endorsement. However, while the folks from the Journal Sentinel editorial board may think Justice Prosser…

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Justice David Prosser calls Chief Justice Abrahamson a “b–ch”

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, who in announcing his reelection campaign promised to protect the Supreme Court’s conservative judicial majority and act as a “common sense compliment” to both the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s administration, as well as the Republican-controlled legislature, has landed himself in the middle of a…

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David Prosser: the “soft on pedophiles” candidate

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has taken to the radio airwaves in an ad supporting Justice David Prosser for reelection to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and in the ad Clarke claims Prosser is tough on crime. However, Clarke conveniently forgot to mention Prosser took it easy on a pedophile priest…

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Possible Prosser campaign finance shenanigans revealed?

Over at Cognitive Dissidence, capper has an interesting report on possible campaign finance shenanigans (and by shenanigans I mean illegal coordination) by the reelection campaign of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. In this one paragraph, along with the poor grammar, Behling is saying that he worked with the third…

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If He’d Shot Her, Would Prosser Claim “Castle Doctrine” as a Defense?

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, currently the target of an ethics probe for choking fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, claimed today that it is constitutionally illegal to investigate his actions under the First Amendment to the Constitution.  Nevermind any Wisconsin law, I suppose.  Here’s what he said, as reported…

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Kloppenburg vs. Prosser

Just another follow up on the op-ed pieces from the April 3rd Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Crossroads section: This time on the two pieces supporting Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg and Justice David Prosser for Wisconsin Supreme Court. Both of the articles (pro AAG Kloppenburg by Janice Eisen and pro Justice…

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Pedro Colon endorses Justice Prosser

Take a long, hard look at the endorsement page of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. See anything that strikes you as odd? I did, and that’s the fact that Judge (and former Democratic State Rep.) Pedro Colon, who’s up for reelection this year, endorsed Justice Prosser for reelection. The…

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WI Supreme Court race tightens up…does that spell trouble for Prosser?

As reported by Robert Costa of the National Review, the polls between incumbent Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg are tightening up, which certainly can’t be a good sign for Justice Prosser. Two sources with knowledge of internal GOP polling tell us that Prosser and Kloppenburg…

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Justice Prosser’s hometown paper endorses JoAnne Kloppenburg for WI Supreme Court

This is gonna leave a mark… But here’s something else that might have been missed amid Wisconsin’s recent political ugliness. In 2006, Prosser said that while he was a legislative leader, staffers who worked under his direction did campaign work. He also acknowledged that in his interview with The P-C…

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