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To be truly fair Wisconsin courts must be free from big political money
Wisconsin needs to begin to figure out a better way to elect state Supreme Court justices and judges at all levels and those discussions need to begin in earnest now.
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VIDEOS: Judicial Recusal in Wisconsin
Learn more about why Wisconsin needs stronger recusal rules for our judges and justices.
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices Louis Butler and Janine Geske talk about the need for strong recusal rules for Wisconsin’s judges:
Wisconsinites share their thoughts about what impartial justice in our state courts means to them:
Marquette University Law Professor and former WI Supreme Court candidate Edward Fallone explains how big-money contributions affect both judicial decisions in Wisconsin’s courts and the public’s faith in those decisions.
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Blog Post
Wisconsin After the Most Significant Election of 2023
The national hype for this contest for ideological control of the State Supreme Court was justified and not over the top. It was by any measure, monumentally significant.
Blog Post
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice-Elect Hagedorn’s “Gratitude” to Republican Party Underscores Necessity for Stronger Recusal Rules
Hagedorn says he will be impartial when he is sworn in as a justice later this Summer. But in the absence of stronger recusal rules for Wisconsin judges, will he really be impartial, objective, and beholden only to the law and not his supporters?