Why hasn't anybody asked Justice Pat Roggensack these questions? They seem obvious to me, and I don't even live in Wisconsin any more. 1) Justice Roggensack, you wrote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel : "[W]hen a citizen votes in a judicial election, he or she exercises a right guaranteed under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution." The First Amendment — as you know — originally applied only to Congress. Since then the United States Supreme Court has held, by selective incorporation , that
It's been some time but I'm certain I recall the usual suspects on the political right in Wisconsin castigating that State's Chief Justice, Shirley Abrahamson, for presenting herself as an ally of law enforcement. In the course of winning 69 of 72 counties in 2009, the CJ ran an ad featuring Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney's enthusiastic support. Above is a detail of Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack's Facebook cover photo which, according to the proverb, tells a thousand words. And it's no differe
[T]he statutes applicable to the [Wisconsin] Judicial Commission have been amended ... by this court several times. Wowee . Some conservative huh ?