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THE ISTHMUS DESIGNS COVER WITHOUT READING OWN COVER STORY
HEADER READS "BRADLEY V. KLOPPENBURG IS A CLASSIC CONTEST BETWEEN TWO VISIONS OF THE ROLE OF LAW”
STORY EXPLAINS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE
The Isthmus’ cover story this week is a hit job on conservative judge Rebecca Bradley, who is the incumbent running for State Supreme Court. And that’s totally fine - Bradley is just another puppet for business interests. She’s hoping to be elected on the strength of her appeal to Christian fundamentalists and the white population’s widespread racism, so that she can help the court pave a legal path for the neoliberal agenda advanced by Scott Walker.
I mean, there are problems with the article - it accepts an insulated political framework where “liberal” will always mean “Not Republican” - but we can talk about that later, Isthmus. For now, can we just talk about the cover?
This is not “a classic contest between two visions of the role of law”. Did you find some sort of niche automatic headline generator online? A clash between “two visions of the role of law” is exactly the way Bradley is trying to frame the race. Her whole thing is to claim she’s above politics and has a different judicial philosophy than Kloppenberg, so that people won’t think about her actual politics when they vote. The whole point of the article is to debunk that framework. Quote: “The race...might ultimately come down to... Who has the most money from those seeking to sway the court’s ideological tilt.”
Bradley’s framing of this as a conflict over “role of law” is just a tried and true method that “gives conservative judges a fig leaf to cover their activism”, notes legal historian Melvin Urofsky. I didn’t interview Urofsky; that quote is from the article.
What’s going on here? Does whoever designed the cover disagree with the person who wrote the article? If so, this is a strange, although possibly effective, way of getting revenge.
The real takeaway is as follows.
“The Isthmus: You can do politics without even thinking about it!”
Democrats Are Looking Good In Wisconsin As Russ Feingold Leads Senate Race By 14
Democrats Are Looking Good In Wisconsin As Russ Feingold Leads Senate Race By 14
A Marquette Law School Poll conducted between September 24th and 28th, found Democratic challenger Russ Feingold had opened up a 50 to 36 lead over incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson. Feingold’s numbers marked a 9-point jump from his 47 to 42 lead over Johnson in Marquette Law School’s August poll of the Wisconsin Senate race.
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Need a primer on what Right To Work REALLY means for working families? Watch this.
Central to Walker’s win was a massive infusion of campaign cash, saturating the Badger State with months of political advertising. His win signals less a loss for the unions than a loss for our democracy in this post-Citizens United era, when elections can be bought with the help of a few billionaires.
Amy Goodman ‘We Will Only Get Louder’: Dozens of Communities Vote to Boot Big Money from Politics
The resounding victories should send a sharp message to Congress, said Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, national director of Move to Amend. “Nearly all Americans share the sentiment that corporations should not have the same rights as people, and big money in politics should be removed,” she said. “It is time for Congress to pass the We the People Amendment and send it to the states for ratification. The leadership of both parties need to realize that their voters are clamoring for this amendment, and we are only going to get louder.”
The former president said that for 100 years, people in America had looked to Wisconsin as a place where people had vigorous debates on the issues, but worked out solutions.
"Now they look at Wisconsin and they see America's battleground," Clinton said. "Between people who want to work together to solve problems and people who want to divide and conquer. People who know that creative cooperation is working in America and people who want constant conflict."
Speaking under a gazebo on the banks of the Milwaukee River, Clinton said "creative cooperation" was the best way to reach consensus on issues such as economic development and balancing budgets.
"Everywhere I go in America, everywhere I go in the world, the only thing that is working is when you get everybody who has a stake in the game in there, treat them with respect, and people go forward," Clinton said.
"This divide and conquer, no compromise crowd, if they had been in control, there never would have been a U.S. Constitution," Clinton said.
Clinton said that, ordinarily, he was opposed to recall elections.
"But sometimes it is the only way to avoid a disastrous course," Clinton said of Wisconsin's historic election.
Walker is being challenged not because he pursued conservative policies but because Wisconsin has become the most glaring example of a new and genuinely alarming approach to politics on the right. It seeks to use incumbency to alter the rules and tilt the legal and electoral playing field decisively toward the interests of those in power.
Wisconsin’s recall election on Scott Walker: A bid for regular order - The Washington Post
We live in interesting times. A segment of the general public is quick to forgive the killing of two young men in Slinger, Wisconsin and Sanford, Florida as the unavoidable consequence of the exercise of a constitutional right. Yet at the same time, state court judges who have exercised their constitutional right of self-governance by signing a recall petition are being publicly called out by both special interest groups and the media, as if by signing the petition they have transgressed some moral boundary. These are interesting times, indeed.
Signing a Recall Petition Does Not Require Judicial Recusal : Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
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