Walker Goes Way Back With State Justice Under Fire For Anti-Gay Remarks

Don't let anyone fool you--he knew she was a bigot --and does not care.


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Walker Goes Way Back With State Justice Under Fire For Anti-Gay Remarks


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BySCOTT BAUERPublishedMarch 9, 2016, 4:49 PM EST

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The personal and political lives of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and an embattled state Supreme Court justice have been intertwined for decades, starting with their overlapping semesters at Marquette University, where the future justice penned anti-gay opinion pieces and threatened to resign from the student government over a multicultural course requirement.

Justice Rebecca Bradley's writings bashing gays, feminism, abortion and political correctness at Marquette University from the early 1990s resurfaced this week, in the midst of her run for a full 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. They have become a central issue in the April 5 election, where she faces state Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg.

Walker hasn't said whether he knew about Bradley's writings before he appointed her to three judicial openings. Bradley said she has never spoken with Walker about them.

But his political opponents say there's no way the former Republican presidential candidate couldn't have known about Bradley's outspoken positions, given their connections at Marquette......