March 20, 2011
— Gabriel Malor These are the people Wisconsin Republicans hope will do the right thing next week and vacate the spurious stay order by a radical (and vacationing) Madison judge:
As the deeply divided state Supreme Court wrestled over whether to force one member off criminal cases last year, Justice David Prosser exploded at Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson behind closed doors, calling her a "bitch" and threatening to "destroy" her.The incident, revealed in interviews as well as e-mails between justices, shows fractures on the court run even deeper than what has been revealed in public sniping in recent years. Problems got so bad that justices on both sides described the court as dysfunctional, and Prosser and others suggested bringing in a third party for help, e-mails show.
How did the the Journal Sentinel get these private emails, you wonder? Oh, yet another justice gave them out at the request of the newspaper. A liberal justice.
It's like this. Wisconsin Supreme Court justices run for election and though they are nominally non-partisan the Court frequently splits along the usual lines. At the moment, there are four conservatives on the court and three liberals. Justice Prosser, a conservative, is running for reelection this year. An election that will take place April 5, to be exact. Unless he is reelected, Prosser's term ends July 31st.
Anyway, I normally wouldn't bother to flag state politics here at the HQ, but these are the folks that Wisconsin Republicans are depending on to do the right thing on the budget repair bill. And while the Republicans absolutely have the law on their side here, the unprofessional behavior on the Court gives me little confidence that the Justices can follow it.
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>> Prosser's term ends July 31st.
Which will be my 29th anniversary, with Mrs. Dave in Texas.
Assuming she doesn't shoot me in the face with a cannon loaded with porcupines, armadillos and fairy dust.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 20, 2011 03:37 PM (Wh0W+)
Assuming she doesn't shoot me in the face with a cannon loaded with porcupines, armadillos and fairy dust.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 20, 2011 07:37 PM (Wh0W+)
I bet odds on that are around 60-40 too
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 03:38 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Donna at March 20, 2011 03:38 PM (DhK9/)
Did he say this from atop a 60-foot-tall battlemech? Because that would be badass.
Posted by: nickless at March 20, 2011 03:38 PM (MMC8r)
"I'll destroy you."
What kinda pompous dork says a thing like that?
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at March 20, 2011 07:34 PM (wjt+
The half-witted half-brother of the Dimbulb Assemblyman in WI who wanted a woman (and GOP) colleague wiped out, perhaps?
Posted by: ya2daup at March 20, 2011 03:39 PM (hsLUJ)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 20, 2011 03:42 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Whatever! at March 20, 2011 07:40 PM (piMMO)
Secret recipe of Shotz Beer is "teh crazy".
Posted by: Laverne De Fazio at March 20, 2011 03:45 PM (YX6i/)
We tolerate Abrahamson, but we don't worry too much about her because she generally does just about nothing.
Prosser, at least, is pro-life and quite conservative. He might have a short fuse, but it's our fuse.
Posted by: tcn at March 20, 2011 03:48 PM (QuGK2)
Is it crazy of me to admit that I am upset that Johnsonville Beer Brauts now have "Made with Miller High Life" on the label? I liked them better when I thought they were made with some rich meaty German beer.
Posted by: Whatever! at March 20, 2011 03:49 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Papa Editor at March 20, 2011 03:50 PM (YX6i/)
Problems got so bad that justices on both sides described the court as dysfunctional, and Prosser and others suggested bringing in a third party for help, e-mails show.
Freelance dishwasher Jim Shankman refused to help, citing other commitments.
Posted by: Cicero at March 20, 2011 03:52 PM (veJzk)
Considering the way the unions essentially subverted the Wisconsin Legislature by getting all the D's to leave the state for Illinois, and before that the way the ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT let Rahm back in to the race for Chicago Mayor, I suspect they read quite well ... particularly the signature on their paychecks ... not the official, public paychecks they receive from the state, the other ones.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 20, 2011 03:53 PM (1YBAh)
Posted by: flurmf at March 20, 2011 03:55 PM (xO+xd)
Posted by: Andrea Mitchell's Universe at March 20, 2011 03:58 PM (le5qc)
Posted by: Al Capone at March 20, 2011 03:58 PM (AZGON)
Justice David Prosser exploded at Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson behind closed doors, calling her a "bitch"
Truth is an affirmative defense?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2011 03:59 PM (9Lm5R)
21 We're just fucked is all. The GOPers are corrupt. The Dems are beyond belief. The voters are the same people that riot after ballgames.
It's worse than walking in on your octogenarian Grandparents having a swinger party with their peers.
Posted by: Beto at March 20, 2011 04:05 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: newrouter at March 20, 2011 04:10 PM (nfC5u)
Posted by: Sonia Sotomayor at March 20, 2011 04:15 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Donna at March 20, 2011 07:48 PM (DhK9/)
last I heard he was fucked.
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at March 20, 2011 04:17 PM (eCAn3)
"I'll destroy you."
What kinda pompous dork says a thing like that?
Yeah, "I must break you" would have been much cooler.
Posted by: pep at March 20, 2011 04:18 PM (P18+/)
Posted by: Sock Puppet 5000 at March 20, 2011 04:19 PM (W58PC)
Last I saw boo boo kitty was in the alley behind the Chinese take-out place.
Now that you mention it I don't think anybody's seen him since.
Posted by: gebrauchshund at March 20, 2011 04:19 PM (iYwUw)
FU Rick Barnes. That is all.
Crazy game. The Texas point guard sure took his sweet time getting it up the court.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at March 20, 2011 04:27 PM (dWPyO)
13 months later it comes out just 3 weeks before the election....
I smell an agenda or my dogs been eating beans again...
Posted by: AmericanDawg at March 20, 2011 04:29 PM (iisgJ)
I lost on Texas, damnit, but I still lead all the regular morons. I'm sure that'll change though.
How's Delta Smelt doing? Yoo-hoo, Delta, I have a drink for you. Puree of crow.
(kidding)
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2011 04:31 PM (nTVp/)
/sarc
Posted by: Geronimo at March 20, 2011 04:33 PM (MaNP3)
This is all just the pre-Stanley side-show anyway. The only part of March sports I really enjoy are the big upsets when the bracket obsessed cry sweet, sweet tears. Oh, and then the inevitable story about some african grey parrot that picked a perfect bracket.
Posted by: ef at March 20, 2011 04:36 PM (KIVK4)
The missile hit the building housing Ghaddafi's entire wardrobe.
Michelle Obama's fashion designers hardest hit.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 20, 2011 04:36 PM (PgS3/)
Oh wait, 'guru' is the word they actually used.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 04:36 PM (qXJe4)
How's Delta Smelt doing? Yoo-hoo, Delta, I have a drink for you
My bracket is completely destroyed. The Moe Rons, and even Owaffle is kicking my ass.
In fairness, Obummer spends alot more time on this sort of thing than I do. Just don't have as much free time as him apparently.
(hangs head in shame)
Oh and a Jack and Coke would be great right about now Dagny. Thanks sweet cheeks.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at March 20, 2011 04:36 PM (dWPyO)
Posted by: Delta Smelt at March 20, 2011 04:38 PM (dWPyO)
Absolutely shameless.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 04:42 PM (qXJe4)
Posted by: Wisconsin at March 20, 2011 04:45 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: curious at March 20, 2011 04:45 PM (k1rwm)
Posted by: Michelle's Blind Designers at March 20, 2011 04:47 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: ef at March 20, 2011 04:47 PM (KIVK4)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at March 20, 2011 08:44 PM (vbh31)
Maybe you should put a little ice on that.
Posted by: Slick Willie Clinton at March 20, 2011 04:48 PM (/izg2)
Absolutely shameless.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 08:42 PM (qXJe4)
Eh, usually the articles on Yahoo sports by their photographed journalists do not have comments on them anyways. Otherwise that dipshit Wetzel, their NBA guy Wojnarski, and their NFL guy Mike "I do NFL but let me talk about English soccer, and my College sports teams in every article I do" Silver would receive nothing but hate.
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 04:49 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 20, 2011 04:50 PM (kUaEF)
Christ nude, does she even have a mirror?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 20, 2011 04:51 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 04:53 PM (UO6+e)
oh, that makes sense then.
In other NCAA news, I'm pretty sure G. Gumbel is ready for his job in the Obama administration. He's every bit as smart as the clowns working at 1600 Penn. Ave.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 04:54 PM (qXJe4)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 08:49 PM (qXJe4)
Not only her....the kids always looks like they're going to go a school picnic. Good gawd....put on a friggin' dress.
Posted by: Tami at March 20, 2011 04:56 PM (VuLos)
Well it is marginally better than the silver number from yesterday.
What got my attention in that picture is what the older daughter is wearing. If I didn't know better I'd think she had on old fashioned stockings and forgot to put on her skirt.
Posted by: Retread at March 20, 2011 04:56 PM (okCHU)
Bailout officials might need bonuses themselves
/He strongly disapproves, btw.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 04:56 PM (UO6+e)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 20, 2011 04:57 PM (kUaEF)
Why do they all match? It's not the Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 05:00 PM (qXJe4)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 08:49 PM (qXJe4)
Yeesh. She has the opportunity to hire the best tailors in the world for her and her children yet she still dresses like that. You would think somebody would pull her aside and say something.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 05:03 PM (UO6+e)
Posted by: CMU VET at March 20, 2011 05:03 PM (dExXN)
Hmm, I see this one of two ways --
One, people have. But like her husband, she's hellbent on doing whatever the hell she ultimately wants to do - her entitlement syndrome.
Two, people are afraid to say 'no' or 'hmm, maybe not the wisest choice, Ma'am'. That would somehow be unseemly.
I can only imagine the stories we will hear when people leave the WH. It's going to make Hillary 'duck or you'll get hit by flying china' Clinton look like Mother Teresa.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 05:08 PM (qXJe4)
Geez that's funny. How many toes? lol'd.
Posted by: Derak at March 20, 2011 05:08 PM (CjpKH)
Can someone explain something?
The 14 cowardly dems are back, so quorum can be held, why can't they, the repubs, just pass the original bill now again? Just avoid this whole circus, and pass it again.
Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at March 20, 2011 05:09 PM (ACkhT)
Posted by: Andrea Mitchell's Universe at March 20, 2011 05:09 PM (le5qc)
3) She surrounds her self with sycophants would will only tell her what she wants to hear.
Posted by: Tami at March 20, 2011 05:11 PM (VuLos)
Posted by: nickless
\
Where's the banhammer?
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 20, 2011 05:12 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 20, 2011 05:14 PM (kUaEF)
3) She surrounds her self with sycophants would will only tell her what she wants to hear.
Posted by: Tami at March 20, 2011 09:11 PM (VuLos)
Is that like blind, crazy elephants?
Posted by: ontherocks at March 20, 2011 05:16 PM (HBqDo)
One, people have. But like her husband, she's hellbent on doing whatever the hell she ultimately wants to do - her entitlement syndrome.
Two, people are afraid to say 'no' or 'hmm, maybe not the wisest choice, Ma'am'. That would somehow be unseemly....
Point taken. I frankly wouldn't be surprised.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 05:16 PM (UO6+e)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 20, 2011 05:16 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 05:19 PM (HROED)
The 14 cowardly dems are back, so quorum can be held, why can't they,
the repubs, just pass the original bill now again? Just avoid
this whole circus, and pass it again.
IIRC, even if they pass the full bill the Dem Sec. of State still has to publish it. That's how the legislature got into this mess, is because he waited for the unions to get their deals and buy a judge when he should have published it after it was passed. The same thing would have happened if they had passed the entire bill as soon as the fleebaggers returned.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 05:23 PM (UO6+e)
Prosser is a solid conservative. He is also our best bet for keeping our State Supreme Court conservative leaning. I wouldn't be too hasty to judge how Wisconsin reacts to this budget repair process by what most people see on TV. Madison is a VERY liberal city and once one ventures out of Madison the people are much more moderate. The fact that a Madison court put a temporary kerbosh on this bill should have suprised no one.
The Democrats in our state got their asses handed to them last election...the people of Wisconsin had their say. If the SSC stays conservative leaning the Liberal judge in Madison should be overturned.
Posted by: Harry_S at March 20, 2011 05:23 PM (d+eeq)
Quote his nasty quote but don't say what the conflict was or what his opponent said.
Remember when they called up the fleeing trucks in Iraq in 2004 as if it was new news during the elections? And it turns out it was a year old and they selectively reported the story?
The left-dominated MBM is a threat to participatory governance. We don't take that seriously enough - not that it's easy to fix.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 20, 2011 05:23 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 20, 2011 05:23 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 09:23 PM (UO6+e)
well, the issue is not the publishing of the law, that can only be postponed 10 days. The issue that is being sued on is this 24 hour notice item, which irrelevant as the rule passed by 2 of the fleeing dems 2 years ago, said that in a special session that 24 hour rule does not apply.
So, if the bill is voted on again, 24 hour notice given, and it will pass, as the votes are there, Gov walker signs it into law, then the sos be a jerk and wait to publish it, he can only wait 10 days, but at the end of 10 days, its law. Then there is nothing for the judge to be an activist about.
This is why I dont understand, quorum can be called, pass the thing again.
Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at March 20, 2011 05:28 PM (ACkhT)
The 14 cowardly dems are back, so quorum can be held, why can't they, the repubs, just pass the original bill now again? Just avoid this whole circus, and pass it again.
I believe bringing the bill up again will be a prelude to even a bigger circus tham we had last time. I feel it would be better at this point in time, with the curent makeup of our State Supreme Court to let them deal with it.
Posted by: Harry_S at March 20, 2011 05:28 PM (d+eeq)
I don't know much about gardening, but if their gardening forum is as good as their 'home' forum, then it should be really good.
gardenwebDOTcom
Posted by: Whatever! at March 20, 2011 05:29 PM (piMMO)
Because the Democrats always win. That is the unwritten rule of Wisconsin these Democratic United States, formerly known as a Constitutional Republic
Posted by: CAC at March 20, 2011 09:15 PM (lV4Fs)
FIFY.
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 20, 2011 05:30 PM (DCpHZ)
Posted by: tcn at March 20, 2011 05:31 PM (QuGK2)
...So, if the bill is voted on again, 24 hour notice given, and it will pass, as the votes are there, Gov walker signs it into law, then the sos be a jerk and wait to publish it, he can only wait 10 days, but at the end of 10 days, its law. Then there is nothing for the judge to be an activist about.
Though wouldn't the judge just find something else? After all, the rules were followed here yet she used the 24hr notice as an excuse to rule against the bill. Who's to say she won't do that another time? I'm not saying that they should avoid passing it another time, just that it seems the outcome would be similar because this woman is an activist judge who is ignoring the law.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 05:35 PM (UO6+e)
We have a runaway government acting against the interests of the United States and beyond its legal authority. Does anyone have the backbone to stop it and hold Obama accountable? Will there be an international war crimes trial for Barack Obama?
Seems like the short cuts might finally catch up with bho.
Posted by: sTevo at March 20, 2011 05:38 PM (VMcEw)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 09:35 PM (UO6+e)
good point. This is such a clear cut case, even a nonlawyer can see its a very clear case.
What I find amazing, she puts a temp hold on the law, to say she needs more time to review it, and in the next paragraph says something to effect that yes the law clearly violates the rule.
So if you already know which way you're going to rule, rule on it already! and move it up one level so that court can judge on it and overturn it.
Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at March 20, 2011 05:41 PM (ACkhT)
Posted by: Museisluse at March 20, 2011 05:44 PM (xrmna)
Speaking of Moo's blind designers, who put this gem together??
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 20, 2011 08:49 PM (qXJe4)
Geez, looks like the Killer Bee costumes from Belushi-era SNL.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2011 05:44 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: Shoppy at March 20, 2011 05:45 PM (xvCQK)
So if you already know which way you're going to rule, rule on it already! and move it up one level so that court can judge on it and overturn it.
Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-dem at March 20, 2011 09:41 PM (ACkhT)
She's stalling in hopes that A) someone will figure out another trick to defy the majority vote, and B) she can drag it out until the State Supreme Court election in hopes that they can change the balance on the court before this gets there.
Like everything Democrats do in politics, it's an attempt to game the system so they can't lose. One of many reasons we keep losing, and one of many reasons we have to learn how to stop losing - first by making their machinations more public.
Getting people to understand that when they're too locked up making ends meet and entertaining themselves is the problem.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 20, 2011 05:53 PM (bxiXv)
I don't know much about gardening, but if their gardening forum is as good as their 'home' forum, then it should be really good.
gardenwebDOTcom
Posted by: Whatever! at March 20, 2011 09:29 PM (piMMO)
it's great but, they don't stick to just gardening, it's a great place to learn an awful lot with lovely people
Posted by: curious at March 20, 2011 09:22 PM (k1rwm)
Posted by: funky at March 21, 2011 12:58 AM (iWRab)
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"I'll destroy you."
What kinda pompous dork says a thing like that?
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at March 20, 2011 03:34 PM (wjt+8)