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As he is skewered by the conservative politicians and pundits who helped elect him, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn insists he remains true to his campaign promise: to read the law as plainly written and interpret it as the writers intended.
Those legal principles, known as âtextualismâ and âoriginalism,â are hallmarks of the conservative judicial approach â one that Hagedorn ostensibly shares with three others on the stateâs highest court: Chief Justice Pat Roggensack, Justice Annette Ziegler and Justice Rebecca Bradley, who were also elected with the help of Republicans.
âAs best I can Iâm trying to follow the law,â said Hagedorn, who legal observers say has become the courtâs most powerful swing vote. He says his restrained approach aligns with the judicial philosophy he has always had.
Remembering former Wisconsin Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson
Shirley Abrahamson spent more than four decades serving on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was the longest-serving justice on the state’s high court, only retiring from the bench in July 2019 at the age of 85. She also holds the distinction of being the first woman to serve on the Court.
After nearly sixty years in the Badger state, she relocated to the Bay Area last September to be closer to her family. It was there that she passed away this weekend, just two days after her 87th birthday.
During her career, Abrahamson was one of the court’s strongest liberal voices, although she always stated that she was an independent. She championed civil rights, pro-labor causes and open government policies.
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“She belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Wisconsin Supreme Court justices,”
Joe Ehmann, who runs the appellate division of the State Public Defender’s office in Madison, says of the late Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
Shirley Abrahamson, who passed away on Saturday.
“I think of her and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the same way,” he adds. “I am in awe of and grateful for what each achieved in their extraordinary lives and careers, and miss them both.”
Dean Strang, a prominent criminal defense attorney who has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court places Abrahamson, along with two or three other judges nationwide, as “the leading U.S. state supreme court judge of the second half of the 20th century and the first two decades of this one.”
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