{"id":9956,"date":"2017-06-19T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2017-06-19T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:15:53","slug":"thats-bad-on-its-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/06\/19\/thats-bad-on-its-face\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s Bad On Its Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so maybe that’s why he’s not running again. Wisconsin, which elects its Supreme Court justices, will have an open seat in 2018, as Justice Gableman has declined to seek a second term. A “reliable conservative,” the Journal Sentinel <\/b><\/i>has an unsettling report <\/a>on Gableman’s climb to power:<\/p>\n

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As a Burnett County circuit judge, Gableman in 2008 unseated Justice Louis Butler, becoming the first candidate to defeat a sitting justice in more than four decades.<\/p>\n

Almost immediately, he faced charges from the state\u2019s Judicial Commission, which concluded he had lied in a campaign ad that described\u00a0a case Butler handled as a public defender. The state Supreme Court split 3-3<\/a>\u00a0in 2010 on whether Gableman had violated ethical rules for judges with the ad.<\/p>\n

The matter spurred more controversy when the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich revealed<\/a> it had not required Gableman to pay for the firm’s legal defense of him in the ethics case.<\/p>\n

Gableman went on to hear cases involving the firm without disclosing his financial arrangement with it. He ruled in favor of the firm\u2019s clients at least five times<\/a>, according to a review of cases the Journal Sentinel performed in 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quid pro quo<\/i>? It sure feels like it. And it’s incumbent on the judiciary to be the disinterested third party, not tangled up in politics or commercial interests – or even have the appearance of same. I’d say Gableman failed that requirement; and perhaps, looking at the mood of the electorate, he’s decided not to waste the time and energy of a failing campaign, especially as the Democrats already have two energetic candidates signed up for the battle, ready to use his own actions against him.<\/p>\n

All speculation on my part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so maybe that’s why he’s not running again. Wisconsin, which elects its Supreme Court justices, will have an open seat in 2018, as Justice Gableman has declined to seek a second term. A “reliable conservative,” the Journal Sentinel has an unsettling report on Gableman’s climb to power: As a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9958,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}