Wisconsin voters are experiencing a different judicial campaign in the bid of Justice David Prosser to remain on the state Supreme Court. The issue? Prosser calling Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson a “total bitch.” Prosser has gone public to say that he did in fact call Abrahamson the name, but he stressed that he meant it. He also promised to “destroy” her. The controversy has now pulled other justices into the fray on both sides.
Prosser insists that Abrahamson was working against him politically as well as other court conservatives. He said that he “probably overreacted, but I think it was entirely warranted. . . . They (Abrahamson and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley) are masters at deliberately goading people into perhaps incautious statements. This is bullying and abuse of very, very long standing.”
Bradley recounted the confrontation in an email: “In a fit of temper, you were screaming at the chief; calling her a ‘bitch,’ threatening her with ‘. . . I will destroy you’; and describing the means of destruction as a war against her ‘and it won’t be a ground war.'”
Bradley’s email led another justice to criticize her for airing the issue to a wider audience. Justice Patience Roggensack wrote to Bradley, stating
“You were trying to make David look bad in the eyes of others, as a person who uses language that we all find offensive – and I include David in that ‘we,’  . . .Do you think that copying others on your e-mail increased the collegiality of the court or decreased it?
You are a very active participant in the dysfunctional way we carry-on. (As am I.) You often goad other justices by pushing and pushing in conference in a way that is simply rude and completely nonproductive. That is what happened when David lost his cool. He is not a man who attacks others without provocation. Until you realize that you are an active part of the provocation, not much will change. Perhaps a third party will help you realize that you are not part of the solution; you are part of the problem.”
As the article below details, there continued to be angry exchanges between the court members.
Ironically, I recently met Abrahamson when I was a panel member at Marquette Law School in Milwaukee. She stayed for the awarding of public interest commendations to law schools and local lawyers and was extremely gracious.
Source: JSOnline found at ABA Journal.
Awww.
That’s just adorable.
Does Andy have you boys working overtime instead of helping pay for his boy’s VISA bill?
What is this Green Icky things that communicates with me? Does it need a couch appointment with someone to prescribe numerous anti-psychotic medications?
I am at a loss as to why you are saying this to me. Who died and left you all alone to be bitter as lemons in the desert?
Auntee Scree, the invitation came from you….
Auntee Social, BS, MS, Phd 1, March 22, 2011 at 11:00 am
Wootsy was a Cat or is it Wootsy is still a cat,
Now what kind of name is that? Are you saying you were a pussy and now you are not? Did you have a sex change and finally get some balls? What is it?
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next time you go gunning, sheild your oriface (in your case, from your own appendage….)
Can’t rape the willing. And you willingly entered unarmed into a battle of wits. Sorry! That trumps your victim card.
M/M Twaty,
Please accept my condolences for your irritability. When you play with others they don’t like it unless it is consensual. I am feeling raped by your words. I am aghast that you should talk to be this way.
am I playing? with all both of you?…what a party!
M/M Twasty,
Are you playing with me? It is not nice, I suffer as well.
“Never in a million years. I know how to handle these things.”~Auntee
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….of course you do
😉
Buddha, there is a law, that what we perceive in others we strengthen in ourselves. I find it too be especially true in times like these when things appear to me to be so batsh!t crazy. There are too many things in the universe that I do not understand and I am not an agent of the courts….so I am hardly one qualified to call them ‘corrupt’. Regardless of how flipping nutty they look. I am only able to name the beast that I know…to voice what I am absolutely and unshakably and intimately aware of…and that is, in fact, my only responsibility. I do not envy lawyers and judges and policemen in these times.
M/M Twasty,
Never in a million years. I know how to handle these things.
“They can be equally disturbed mentally if the sexual gland that they were given upon birth is small in The Mind. This is called the Napoleon Complex.”
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oh dear, …sweetie….you really do have a problem with these things don’t you?
well, we all heal….
M/M Twatsy,
The Mr. Ratshi fellow appears to have a nasty beard. I suppose he saves his food for later. Oh my, such people.
you are most welcome auntee, because you have so many problems with short people male people ballsy people truthful people people that inherit things social people and mostly, apparently, sexual people….here is another, to make you smile and help you to control your inner beasty 😉
Wootsy,
I thank you from the bottom of my dungaree. If you are not aware, I am Hermaphroditic. Yes, it is true, that in this type of situation one sex organ is dominate. However, in my case, the are of equal proportion. Therefore I do not think that I suffer from Penis Envy. I do know a number of people that maybe physically challenged in that department, yet they make up for it in over exaggerated personalities and expression.
If you will take a short person, they generally have a bad attitude, this is true especially of males. They can be equally disturbed mentally if the sexual gland that they were given upon birth is small in The Mind. This is called the Napoleon Complex. This has nothing to do with Herpes Simplex as this lasts longer.
Again, thank you for the darling music.
Wootsy … penis envy … lol
Here’s a special sumthin for dear Auntee Scree…:)
What I liked was a comment that Justice Abrahamson made to the effect that the risk is that people won’t bring their disputes into court but will try to settle them themselves.
She also authored decisions saying that attorneys can be sued in tort and can be sued for being in conspiracy with their clients.
Sounds like once-DC mayor Marion Barry at his cocaine bust:
“Bitch set me up.”
And I could be wrong, but shouldn’t judges be resistant–rather than susceptible–to “goading”?
How old are these people? What a bunch of dicks!