Like every other Wisconsin Republican and her colleague Justice Annette Ziegler, Justice Rebecca Bradley is having a meltdown about newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz and two upcoming cases regarding districting. She feels that since Protasiewicz received almost $10 million from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Protasiewicz needs to recuse herself from the redistricting cases.
To give you an idea of what a class act that Bradley is, she didn't use the proper name for the party, but instead used the term favored by immature Republicans - Democrat Party. But even more demonstrative of what special kind of idiot she is, she did her ranting in a dissenting opinion of an actual court case:
REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, J. (dissenting). The outcome of this original action has been predetermined. Nevertheless, the majority forces the parties to expend considerable resources—including taxpayer money—to respond to a petition everyone knows will be granted by Ann Walsh Bradley, Rebecca Dallet, Jill Karofsky, and Janet Protasiewicz. Despite receiving nearly $10 million from the Democrat Party of Wisconsin1 and declaring the maps "rigged,"2 Protasiewicz has not recused herself from the case. These four justices will adopt new maps to shift power away from Republicans and bestow an electoral advantage for Democrat candidates, fulfilling one of Protasiewicz's many promises to the principal funder of her campaign.
Ah, but wait. There's more. There's always more.
Another little tidbit of information that Bradley omitted - she voted against any kind of rule calling for recusal if a campaign donor was involved in a case before the court.
Oops:
The issue dates to 2017, when a group of retired judges asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to enact a ban barring justices from ruling on cases involving an individual or organization that had donated to a justice’s campaign.
At the time, a 5-2 conservative majority controlled the court. Bradley joined her right-wing colleagues, which included current Chief Justice Annette Ziegler, to kill the proposed recusal rule.
The petition “asks us to infringe the First Amendment rights of the people of Wisconsin who wish to participate in judicial elections, either through supporting a candidate directly or speaking out on issues in a judicial race,” Bradley wrote in her opinion. “The people of Wisconsin, like everybody else in this country, have a First Amendment right to do that. They have a First Amendment right to speak out in favor of the judges they support, and in opposition to the judges they oppose, without being penalized for exercising their free speech rights. ... In my mind, this petition is somewhat shocking in its disregard for the Wisconsin Constitution and the United States Constitution, particularly the First Amendment.”
Wowzer! You usually only see that level of hypocrisy on Fox!
Speaking of Fox, do you suppose that this Bradley's audition to replace Judge Box O'Wine Pirrro, do you?
