Wisconsin’s new Supreme Court chief justice has responded to an article in the New Yorker that called the court “a disgraceful mess” by saying the writer “didn’t have his facts straight.”
The article, posted online Monday, said a legal fight over the chief justice position “is the latest drama in a decadelong saga that, largely through money-fuelled and often nasty judicial elections, has intensified the turn of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from a congenial, moderately liberal institution into a severely divided conservative stronghold. More to the point, the elections have reduced it from one of the nation’s most respected state tribunals into a disgraceful mess.”