Jeremiah Van Hecke was named executive director of the Wisconsin Judicial Commission.

In recusing herself from the ongoing ethics case against fellow State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley unloaded Wednesday in a memorandum (PDF) decision addressed to James Alexander of the Wisconsin Judicial Commission and others.

The Wisconsin Judicial Commission is next in line to take a crack at getting to the bottom of the alleged choking incident involving two Wisconsin Supreme Court justices.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal faction has accused a conservative justice of choking her during an argument in her office earlier this month — a charge he denied. Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Justice David Prosser put her in a chokehold during the dispute. She contacted ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will not be hearing Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge John Siefert’s challenge to the Code of Judicial Conduct. On Monday, the Court denied Siefert’s petition for certiorari in Siefert v. Alexander, bringing to a close a long battle over the free speech rights of judges and judicial candidates. Nevertheless, Siefert said in an interview that he ...