Corporate Lobbyists Get What They Paid For From Wisconsin Justice David Prosser

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/14/245674/prosser-equals-walker/

Earlier this year, after Wisconsin voters lined up in opposition to Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) assault on union workers, an unknown candidate named Joanne Kloppenburg started to rapidly close a 25 point polling gap against incumbent Walker ally Justice David Prosser. Realizing they could lose their corporate majority on the state supreme court, corporate front groups — some of with close ties to the Koch brothers — began dumping money into an effort to keep Prosser on the bench. Their corporate cash dump succeeded and Prosser won a narrow victory.

Today, Justice Prosser gave his corporate benefactors exactly what they paid for:

The 4-3 Wisconsin Supreme Court opinion upholding Gov. Scott Walker’s divisive union law shows a sharp partisan divide on the high court. . . .

Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson wrote a blistering dissent of the court’s ruling, accusing Justice David Prosser of appearing to have a “partisan slant” with his concurring opinion.

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[PeaceNikki]

1. Total recall.

http://www.wisdems.org/candidates

[iwishiwas]

2. 8 days ago they heard argument. We were waiting to hear IF they

would take the case--and now THIS!! Damm.





Walker's administration then asked the Supreme Court to take over the case, and the court scheduled oral arguments for June 6 on whether to do that. Until Tuesday, the court had not officially said whether it would even accept the case.