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![News take: the arguments in the big SCOW election cases](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_216,h_216,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.webp)
Sep 11, 2024
News take: the arguments in the big SCOW election cases
“It sounds to me like what you are trying to do is to introduce the fear that there is some sort of illegitimacy going on in the election."
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![Supreme Court reverses key previous mental recommitment rulings; grants new protections](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_216,h_216,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.webp)
Jul 17, 2024
Supreme Court reverses key previous mental recommitment rulings; grants new protections
The state Supreme Court has tossed out major rulings in its own five-year-old precedent and ruled that counties cannot involuntarily...
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![The SCOW justices' deep divide is showing in new order](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_216,h_216,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.webp)
Jul 3, 2024
The SCOW justices' deep divide is showing in new order
Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley engages in ad hominem attacks that would be more at home in an ill-advised late-night rant on social media
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!["Community caretaking" seizures and searches ripe for reform?](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7393ec_194bfb39d5774b76823b42788c97ed27~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_432,h_72,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/7393ec_194bfb39d5774b76823b42788c97ed27~mv2.webp)
Jun 21, 2024
"Community caretaking" seizures and searches ripe for reform?
"It's possible some of the more expansive understandings of community caretaking in Wisconsin and elsewhere may need to be circumscribed."
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![A tangled SCOW decision, but majority agreement on tossing drunk driving conviction](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_216,h_216,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.webp)
Jun 18, 2024
A tangled SCOW decision, but majority agreement on tossing drunk driving conviction
"While reasonable suspicion doesn't demand much, it does demand more than a hunch," Hagedorn wrote. "And that is all we see here."
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![Rebecca Bradley says some defendants must seek judicial substitution before even knowing knowing who the judge is](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_216,h_216,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/7393ec_e98de9603a6543ac9ff453abb3b28d49~mv2.webp)
Apr 17, 2024
Rebecca Bradley says some defendants must seek judicial substitution before even knowing knowing who the judge is
Some defendants in criminal cases should be required to make judicial substitution requests before knowing who the assigned judge is,...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: Justice Janet Protasiewicz again asked to recuse from maps case
It's already rerun season! Republican Congressional Reps. Glenn Grothman, Mike Gallagher, Bryan Steil, Tom Tiffany, and Scott Fitzgerald...
Dec 23, 2023
A roundup of news about SCOW's 4-3 decision ordering new legislative maps
Justice Jill Karofsky wrote the majority opinion. She was joined by Justices Rebecca Dallett, Janet Protasiewicz, and Ann Walsh Bradley....
Oct 18, 2023
Robin Vos trots out new Protasiewicz threat
From Isthmus: Responding, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos vowed, “We think the United States Supreme Court precedent compels her recusal, and...
Oct 12, 2023
A second former SCOW justices says Protasiewicz should not be impeached
Former Justice Jon Wilcox says it out loud, after former Justice David Prosser did. Still waiting for former Justice Patience Roggensack,...
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![Protasiewicz's destruction of Republican recusal demands - Part 3](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7393ec_c45528fb15c24a38adc8c7c8cd83ba5e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_216,h_264,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/7393ec_c45528fb15c24a38adc8c7c8cd83ba5e~mv2.webp)
Oct 11, 2023
Protasiewicz's destruction of Republican recusal demands - Part 3
Having destroyed the first two arguments Republicans in the state Legislature made in their demand that Justice Janet Protasiewiz recuse...
Oct 10, 2023
The Protasiewicz takedown of Legislature's recusal nonsense - part 2
Below is a bit more of SCOW Justice Janet Protasiewicz's excellent order declining to recuse herself from participating in redistricting...
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![Janet Protasiewicz's brilliant takedown of recusal demands - Part 1](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7393ec_25936366a5b44887b8c27c27913b57c9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_216,h_264,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/7393ec_25936366a5b44887b8c27c27913b57c9~mv2.webp)
Oct 9, 2023
Janet Protasiewicz's brilliant takedown of recusal demands - Part 1
There is so much to admire in Justice Janet Protasiewicz's Friday order declining to recuse herself from redistricting litigation that...
Oct 9, 2023
Wisconsin Republicans lead this story about anti-democracy efforts! We should be so proud!
It’s not just impeachment. Over the past two years, Republicans also have sought to pry Democrats and nonpartisan executives from office...
Sep 27, 2023
SCOW rejects effort to block Protasiewicz impeachment
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a very short order, refused to accept a case challenging the Assembly's right to impeach...
Sep 22, 2023
Sep 22, 2023
Republicans legislators make ridiculous request of Protasiewicz
Republican legislators requested SCOW Justice Janet Protasiewicz to make public any unreleased but dismissed allegations that she...
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