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May 26, 2021

Wisconsin circuit courts average 81% affirmance rate during pandemic

Wisconsin judges are coming out of a year unlike any other.

Oct 10, 2013

COURT GESTURES: When pro se goes bad, Part II

Remember that defendant I wrote about on Wednesday who was representing himself in his incest trial? Well, on Thursday he threatened to call the FBI on Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Borowski.

Oct 9, 2013

COURT GESTURES: When pro se goes bad

See, this is why you don’t represent yourself in court.

Aug 30, 2013

COURT GESTURES: The ‘kiss of death’

I think I may have found the oddest entry ever put into a court record. And it’s in Milwaukee County.

Aug 27, 2013

COURT GESTURES: Location, location, location

Wait, where exactly did I move? I guess close enough to a place where a dead body was hidden by alleged prostitutes before being found several days later.

Mar 14, 2012

Senate leaders drop standoff on judges

Senate Republican and Democratic leaders ended their standoff Wednesday over President Barack Obama's judicial nominations and agreed to debate a small-business bill that both parties favor in this presidential and congressional election year.

Dec 15, 2011

Lawmakers, judges disagree on law degree legislation

Requiring municipal judges to possess a law degree would help avoid giving carte blanche to local law enforcement and city attorneys, a legislator said Thursday.

Oct 5, 2011

Scalia: Judges ‘ain’t what they used to be’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the quality of federal judges has suffered because there are too many of them. Scalia, testifying before a Senate committee Wednesday, also said Congress made a mistake by making federal crimes out of too many routine drug crimes. The new federal crimes created a need for […]

Sep 12, 2011

Bill proposing Supreme Court appointments to be introduced this week

Legislation calling for state Supreme Court justices to be appointed instead of elected could be introduced this week.

Jan 26, 2011

Year in Review 2010: Appeals/Supreme Court Charts

A look at how the circuit court judges fared in the Court of Appeals/Supreme Court in 2010.

Aug 3, 2010

Commentary: Judicial nominations – then and now

President Obama has appointed UW law professor Victoria Nourse to replace retiring Judge Terence Evans on the Seventh Circuit. Needless to say, it’s not a choice I would make. For me, the simple fact that she wrote an article in the California Law Review last year entitled “A Tale of Two Lochners,” in which she asserts that Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was incorrectly decided,[...]

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