Will this cause a review? The Judge in voter ID case signed Walker recall petition

[HereSince1628]

Just when it seems we got the decision we want. Is this going to cause trouble for the injunction?


http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/141650923.html

Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan, who granted a temporary injunction against Wisconsin's new voter identification law, signed a petition urging the recall of Gov. Scott Walker.

Walker, an ardent supporter of voter ID, signed the legislation creating the requirement last year.

Records show Flanagan signed the Walker recall petition on Nov. 15. The petition lists Flanagan's wife, Maureen McGlynn Flanagan, as the one who circulated the petitiion.

Contacted Tuesday, McGlynn Flanagan - a former assistant attorney general - confirmed that she had gathered signatures in hopes of recalling the first-term Republican governor. She also confirmed that her husband had signed one of the petitions that she circulated.

The Journal Sentinel left a message with Flanagan's chambers asking whether he had signed a recall petition. His clerk called back to say Flanagan would only answer questions submitted in writing at the courthouse.

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[lawyerluke]

1. Judge is citizen too.

You dont stop being a citizen when you become a judge. As long as the case is decided on the merits with the proper application of the facts and the law, it is proper.
the misperception so many people have of the law is that there is a right and awrong answer in evry case. Just not true. some cases really do come down to the perceptions of the trier of fact. In this cse its the judge.
What he does as a private citizen outside the courtroom is irrelevant as long as its legal & doesn't cast aspersions or questions on his impartiality as a jurist.
If Scalia canduch hunt with Cheney then decide a lawsuit brought against him, this case shouldn't even create a ripple.

[Ziggystrange]

2. Why would that be a conflict?

In this case, any judge will have the same problem. If they did not sign the petition are they to be excluded as well? I say no, this judge does not have a reason to be recused, or overruled based on his/her political convictions.

[mysuzuki2]

3. It seems to me no more of a conflict than if a judge had chosen NOT to sign a recall position.

[Homer12]

4. It does not matter

When it goes to teh WI SCOTUS which we all know is majority conservative by the way they vote, Republicans will forgot their pricnples jsut in time.

[midnight]

5. K&R

[sybylla]

6. He's not ruling on Walker, he's ruling on a law passed by the full legislatur. There's a difference.

This complaint is just more whining by the GOPpies. Hell, if they're going by the True the Vote idiots, the chances the judge actually did sign the petition are slim to none.

When the judicial review commission lets Gableman and Zeigler get away with blatantly obvious financial and family conflicts, I doubt this will merit more than ten minutes consideration if it even gets that far.