Ann Walsh Bradley

Maybe Gableman Had A Head Injury?

September 1, 2011 by The Political E...

Bradley must have really walloped him. The memory [sic] effect is substantial:

Madison - State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is sticking by his story that Justice Ann Walsh Bradley hit him on the back of the head, but said Thursday it happened a year later than he originally claimed.

Bradley said in a strongly word denial Thursday that she never struck Gableman. Three other justices have said they did not witness the alleged incident.

The Wisconsin State Journal has a similar report.

Gableman is Prosser's closest friend on the Court, and strongly supported Prosser's version of the now-infamous Bradley-Prosser confrontation - - which included Gableman's recollection that Bradley, six inches shorter than Prosser, somehow towered over him as they stood face-to-face.

Separate branches of Wisconsin state government, defined

August 26, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Mr. BigA classic quote today in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's story on the outcome (there won't be any) of the criminal inquiry into the incident in which State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser put his hands on the throat of Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. Seeking reaction from Gov. Scott Walker, the newspaper reported:

Walker said he's offered his help, but that it's not his place to tell the justices what to do.

No, that place obviously belongs to Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, who advised Prosser -- a former Republican state legislator -- and anyone else who would listen that he would need a quick decision from the court on whether Walker's union-busting bill was enacted legally. Even Prosser stipulates to this. From the police investigation into the incident involving Prosser and Bradley:

From Total Recall to Total Reflex -- Prosser cop-out is Wisconsin's latest wonder

August 26, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Reflexing his muscleIn an interview with an investigating detective on July 8, State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser admitted he made contact with Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in an angry confrontation but recused himself on the basis that ... well, let's hear Prosser tell it:

"Did my hands touch her neck, yes, I admit that. Did I try to touch her neck, no, absolutely not, it was a total reflex."

To put Prosser's defense into other words: Justice Bradley's neck ran into my grasping, outstretched hands. 

Never mind that Prosser is six inches taller than Bradley, weighs thirty pounds more, and would have had to reach downward to encounter her neck -- sort of in the way that cartoonish Homer Simpson reflexively reaches out to strangle his son Bart. No, never mind. Case closed. Well, closed in the criminal courts, but still open before the Wisconsin Judicial Commission and the all-important court of public opinion.