Oh No It Didn't... Prosser Attack Story Hits The New York Times !!!

Wisconsin Judge Said to Have Attacked Colleague
By MONICA DAVEY - NYT
Published: June 25, 2011

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CHICAGO — That the members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court were deeply divided has hardly been a secret of late. When the justices this month decided a law curtailing collective bargaining rights for public workers should come into effect, one of the dissenting justices openly accused the other side of a “partisan slant.”

But signs of a strong philosophical debate within the court reached a different level with a report published on Saturday suggesting that the argument had, shortly before the release of the ruling on collective bargaining, turned physical.

The report by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and Wisconsin Public Radio described an episode in which three unnamed sources said that Justice David T. Prosser had grabbed another justice, Ann Walsh Bradley, around the neck during an argument in her chambers this month. According to the report, Justice Prosser declined to comment on the accusation. Neither of the justices could be reached for comment on Saturday, and officials from the Wisconsin Capitol Police and the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, which monitors judicial behavior and standards, did not return telephone calls.

Already, though, the report was stirring new divisions in a state that has, for months, been locked in a battle between Democrats and Republicans, and between union supporters and those who view cuts to collective bargaining as the only way to spare the state budget.

Critics of Justice Prosser were expressing outrage and calling for investigations into relations among members of the court. While most state Supreme Court justices are known only slightly beyond the legal world, Justice Prosser became well known to most Wisconsinites this year when his bid for re-election — ordinarily a routine, somewhat dull affair — turned into a referendum on the fight that was already playing out in Madison over union rights and public workers.

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More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/us/26judge.html

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:kick:

This is just insane.

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already posted but I never worry about dupes. posts fly by quickly and we miss many.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1363686

to where it was being reported, and by whom. I think I read yesterday that the mainstream hadn't picked up on it. Now, they have and everyone will know, which is great!

And they were colleagues of his, to boot!

This violent asshole has to go.

Bastard! THIS is how they govern. Totally hamhandedly. Typical bullies.

Those smoothing over words actually make it sound much scarier. What exactly is included in this philosophy they are debating???

Palin today urged her Wisconsin Twitter followers to “please remember to vote for Justice Prosser on April 5,” a virtual endorsement of the conservative judge who called Wisconsin’s Chief Justice, Shirley Abrahamson, a “total bitch” that he would “destroy,” and voted against ethics rules requiring judges to recuse themselves from cases involving their campaign donors.


http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/71425/the-foul-phoniness-of-sarah-palins-david-prosser-endorsement/

That's the problem right there, you see. Why should only "critics" of Prosser express outrage? This is violence. Actually, I don't think only his critics are expressing outrage. I'm sure there are some republicans who are too. The reporter is presenting "both sides equally" when they are not equal, as most reporters do when a conservative is involved.

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/nt

I may as well just find out whom that lying @$$, Palin, endorses and I'd know whose a real d***.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52376.html

but he is a Republican so short of a men's room incident he will get away with it

or something like that.

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110625/APC0101/306260027/Report-Supreme-Court-Justice-Prosser-grabbed-fellow-justice-around-neck?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|FRONTPAGE

Unfortunately, choking a woman seems to generate little news, now, if he had shown her his penis, the MSM might give a crap.

Actually, choking would just about do it for a Dem too.

If a Dem choked a colleague even I would be calling for his resignation (and encarcelation), something I fell short of with penis-Tweeting.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/124546064.html

He said ...she said. Bradley went after Prosser and he put his hands up to defend himself and her throat just happen to get in the way. L O L