You call the police, say someone assaulted me, I have multiple witnesses, the police come and arrest them. Not all that complicated.
His conduct, if true, also would violate the Wisconsin Code of Judicial Conduct. I can’t really tell how it’s enforced, though. The “Advisory Committee” provided for in the rules doesn’t appear to have any authority to mete out discipline. I guess the Supreme Court itself would have to take up the matter.
XPav
1783
They’d have to look in the state constitution to see what it says.
“Is the Judge gonna have ta choke a bitch?”
Wisconsin politics are becoming (have become?) such a joke that the whole system needs a reset.
Republicans only resign over sex scandals, preferably gay ones. Physical violence? Pssh, that’s practically a plank in their platform. Endless wars, torture, brandishing guns, and all manner of pro-violence are all standard stuff in the right wing. I’m sure many of his supporters are saying she had it coming.
Because of all the violence of the right wing, as opposed to, say, the relatively peaceful methods employed by the left? I suppose “brandishing guns” may seem pretty threatening, but less so than actually shooting them, rioting, or domestic terrorism, all of which have generally been used by the left.
Oh, well, then that makes it all okay, Andy.
And that’s why Andy is voting for Nixon in the next election!
Has anyone driven one of those new Mustangs? I hear they’re groovy.
“They say an argument that occurred before the court’s release of a decision upholding a bill to curtail the collective bargaining rights of public employees culminated in a physical altercation in the presence of other justices. Bradley purportedly asked Prosser to leave her office, whereupon Prosser grabbed Bradley by the neck with both hands.”
In other words, this is what Prosser is like when his side wins.
AlanQ
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I imagine because the state prosecutors office would have a very difficult time responding to such an allegation. Ultimately it’s up to the state prosecutor to determine if criminal charges are warranted. Clearly a charging decision takes on a difficult legal and political dimension where both the accused person and the complainant are judges, and the alleged crime took place within a courthouse. A state prosecutor would want to be very sure of a conviction indeed before laying charges. Such a prosecutor would also be likely to defer to any internal judicial process for dealing with this kind of incident.
I love that on the google.news feed a Fox Nation version of the story comes up - with just the bare facts of Bradley’s allegation, not commentary at all - under the headline “WI Judge Prosser Smeared.” Now that’s journalism.
One thing is for certain: The Wisconsin Supreme Court continues to supply novel arguments for appointing, and not electing, judges.
Honestly as at outsider, I do look with horror on the business of electing judges/DAs/sheriffs/dogcatchers, and I favour hands-off, depoliticized appointments: but with the system in the US already so heavily politicized, I’m not sure that “hands-off appointment system” would really fly all that well.
Even assuming the legal profession could handle almost the whole process itself without involving legislative organs - which is sort of the model elsewhere - the US legal profession has its own cadre of dedicated movement conservatives nowadays. Are they going to sit down and let “liberal ivory tower elitists” - aka lawyers who don’t graduate from Freedom Liberty America College - take over the judicial appointments process?
And anyway, I suspect many Americans would look very ill on “de-democratizing” an important part of local governance, even if the status quo is clearly dysfunctional.
I wasn’t saying or even implying that at all, but then again I’m sure you already knew that.
The police would arrest a person if they were called by someone saying that another person assaulted them and they have multiple witnesses to it happening.
He wants so badly for someone to notice that he keeps slipping that “multiple witnesses” bit in there, since he knows (like everyone else here) that there weren’t any. For reference, Brettmcd: this sort of behavior is why most of the posters on this forum think you are a tool.
They say an argument that occurred before the court’s release of a decision upholding a bill to curtail the collective bargaining rights of public employees culminated in a physical altercation in the presence of other justices. Bradley purportedly asked Prosser to leave her office, whereupon Prosser grabbed Bradley by the neck with both hands.
This is from the story link, which I bolded the important part, unless you think the story is lying about it happening in the presence of other justices.
So I completely stand by and am accurate in saying it happened in front of multiple witnesses from the facts as we currently have them. Will you continue to say I am making that up?
Does the Justice in question have some form of immunity to arrest? Or immunity to arrest before indictment? (Not trolling; serious question.)
That is actually a very good question that I’ve been looking in to, but I can’t find anything. I know in some states I’ve read stories of justices being arrested for drunk driving if they get pulled over, but nothing specific to WI.
nods I haven’t seen anything either. But there are laws buried in the books in some states which, with the intent of preventing police action from being used against the legislature or judicial branch, grant some amount of immunity from arrest. Wonder if that’s the case in WI.
Also, what happens if the police press charges, it goes up the chain, eventually the appeals bring it to the WI Supreme Court, and … then what? And what’s the likelihood that the Governor might simply pardon Prosser if it comes to that?
