Tag: Shirley Abrahamson

In a story that apparently got lost in the events around the Inauguration on Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered the release of documents related to the John Doe investigations into Governor Walker’s campaigns. The documents will be heavily redacted so it isn’t really clear how useful they will be…

This has mostly passed by the wayside already, attention spans being as limited as they are, but there has been a bit of a kerfluffle lately in the state supreme court regarding “Chief Justice” Patience Roggensack’s high-handed approach to her position. She has a penchant for rewriting court rules willy-nilly. The result…

Two things on the results of Tuesday’s statewide constitutional amendment referendum. First is this excellent opinion piece from James Rowen at The Political Environment. Unable to defeat her at the polls, conservatives managed to arrange the certain removal of Wisconsin Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson from the court’s top post awarded…

Last night Ed wrote a great piece about the efforts to change Wisconsin’s constitution as pertains to how our state supreme court’s chief justice is chosen. I wanted to follow up on Ed’s piece to discuss exactly who is behind this effort to change Wisconsin’s constitution, and not surprisingly the…

It looks like Republicans in the Legislature, not content to try and beat Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson in an election, want to force her out of office by implementing a mandatory retirement age for Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The legislative session that convenes in January…

As a sideshow concerning the longrunning soap opera that surrounds Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, this time concerning his attack on fellow Justice Ann Bradley, his good buddy on the court Justice Michael Gableman, evidently told investigators that Justice Bradley had been violent previously.  Here’s the relevant paragraph from Deputy…

In 2008, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) , spent millions electing Michael Gableman to the Supreme Court. Of course, that was helped by an unethical and racist ad that Gableman ran, but he was still bought and paid for by WMC. While the buying of judges is not unheard of,…

Justice David Prosser, through official marionette, Brian Schimming, had this to say”“I was confident the truth would come out – and it did. I am gratified that the prosecutor founds these scurrilous charges were without merit.” (why a GOP operative is the spokesman for a non partisan Judge who continually…

Moving with alacrity, the conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled earlier today to reinstate Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to essentially end collective bargaining for tens of thousands of public workers in Wisconsin. In a brief decision (seriously, only 8 pages?) Justices Michael Gableman, David Prosser, Patience Roggensack and…

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…