{"id":13331,"date":"2019-03-31T17:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=13331"},"modified":"2019-04-03T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:40:21","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-hagedorn-neubauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-supreme-court-hagedorn-neubauer\/","title":{"rendered":"How impartial are the Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite their similar taste in photo backdrops, the two candidates in Tuesday\u2019s officially nonpartisan Wisconsin Supreme Court election couldn\u2019t be more different.<\/p>\n

Lisa Neubauer is the chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and tends to lean left. Brian Hagedorn is himself an appeals judge, though he\u2019s a bit more conservative than Neubauer. And by a bit, I mean a supermassive, Godzilla-sized amount.<\/p>\n

Whoever wins the seat currently held by retiring (liberal) Justice Shirley Abrahamson will serve a 10-year term, giving them incalculable input over the state\u2019s legal system at a time when the state of Wisconsin is doing what most sports franchises would describe as \u201crebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Rebecca Dallet\u2019s election in 2018, liberals narrowed the court\u2019s conservative majority to 4-3. If they win the next two elections, it could completely upend the balance of power in the state\u2019s highest court. Coupled with a Democratic governor and attorney general, a liberal majority might, for example, rectify Wisconsin\u2019s voter ID law<\/a> and provide an important check on the ongoing Foxconn debacle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a brief overview of both Neubauer and Hagedorn; choose your fighter in this ideological smackdown.<\/span>\n

Lisa Neubauer<\/h2>\n

Throughout her legal career, Neubauer, 61, has always seemed drawn to progressive issues. After graduating law school in the \u201980s, she joined<\/a> the Milwaukee firm Foley and Lardner, specializing in environmental cleanup litigation. Neubauer rose to partner before an appointment to the state appeals court in 2007.<\/p>\n

She claims absolute impartiality in the courtroom, even if that probably isn\u2019t the case. Neubauer even says<\/a> people have told her they don\u2019t want to see a liberal or conservative judge; they want a fair and impartial one. That might be true, but it doesn\u2019t address clear partisan lines on the court. Nor does it speak to Neubauer being the liberals\u2019 best hope to get the majority, even if she insists otherwise.<\/p>\n

When Neubauer announced her candidacy, 150 current and former state judges endorsed her<\/a>, which is a testament to her judicial integrity. But even with her attempts to look totally nonpartisan, Neubauer is<\/em> the race\u2019s liberal option. And that makes sense, given her environmental speciality and the fact that her daughter, Greta, is a Democratic state representative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

God help me for saying this, but Hagedorn was kind of right when he says<\/a> \u201cevery single judge who puts on a robe has views about the world.\u201d I appreciate Neubauer\u2019s poker face, but it would nice to get an idea of her personal interpretations now and then. At the very least, it would make it easier to contrast her with her opponent, who isn\u2019t shy about letting you know where he stands on the issues.<\/span>\n

Brian Hagedorn<\/h2>\n

Hagedorn, 41, is a much more complicated case. Like Neubauer, he is an appeals court vet running as a nonpartisan. But Hagedorn enjoys monster support<\/a> from various national Republican groups, mainly because he isn\u2019t as coy about his partisan politics as Neubauer is, even if his whole thing is railing against them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But all you need to know about Brian Hagedorn is the following quote:<\/p>\n

\u201c… the idea that homosexual behavior is different than bestiality as a constitutional matter is unjustifiable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Hagedorn wrote in a 2005 blog post<\/a>, first unearthed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/a>. He has since defended it<\/a>, saying in a recent talk radio appearance: \u201cMy job as a judge is to say what the law is and not what I think the law should be.\u201d (But then he spoke about how he\u2019s been unfairly criticized for his Christian beliefs, which I thought was supposed to be irrelevant to all this?)<\/p>\n

Hagedorn likes to do his \u201cregular guy\u201d bit, arguing that he is strictly business<\/a> in the courtroom. But given his history of monstrous, inhumane comments, Wisconsin voters should question whether someone capable of such visceral hate is fit to sit on the bench.<\/span>\n

The election is Tuesday, April 2. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. You can <\/em>find your polling place here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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