“Three justices miffed over rejected Judicial Commission appointment”

The latest from Wisconsin: “The animosity surrounding the state Supreme Court flared again Friday when Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and two colleagues protested a decision by the court’s conservative wing to reject the reappointment of the chairman of the Judicial Commission….The letter drew an immediate rebuke from Justice David Prosser, who faces an ethics charge through the Judicial Commission. Prosser was accused of putting his hands on Bradley’s neck last June after she confronted him face to face in her office….’Well, sure there is friction,’ Prosser said. ‘It’s because the chief justice basically insisted that John be reappointed. And it’s as if we didn’t reappoint him, anybody who didn’t vote for him was corrupt. And that word was used. It was basically a threat: If we didn’t vote for John Dawson, the chief justice was going to expose this to the world.'”

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