Walker appoints attorney as next justice on Wisconsin Supreme Court
Source: WBAY-TV. ABC affiliate in Green bay, WI
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Gov. Scott Walker has appointed attorney Dan Kelly to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Walkers spokesman Tom Everson told The Associated Press earlier Friday that the governor had decided to name Kelly to the seven-member court.
Gov. Walker introduced Kelly during a news conference Friday afternoon.
Kelly will replace retiring Justice David Prosser. His appointment wont change the courts 5-2 conservative majority, however. Kelly defended Republicans 2011 legislative redistricting plan against a federal lawsuit that alleged the maps denied voters their rights.
The 52-year-old Kelly serves on the litigation advisory board for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative group that has filed lawsuits defending several of Walkers most contentious proposals. He wrote in application materials he submitted to Walker that same-sex marriage robs the institution of meaning and affirmative action is akin to slavery.
Read more: http://wbay.com/2016/07/22/walker-to-announce-wisconsin-supreme-court-appointee/
Walker is determined to leave Wisconsin government a total wreck.
snacker
(3,619 posts)Walker appoints inexperienced Bigot and Racist to Supreme Court: Against Gay Marriage and Affirmative Action is Slavery.
riversedge
(70,349 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Rep. Dana Wachs had this to say:
"Since his graduation from Pat Robertsons Regent University School of Law, he has had an unremarkable legal career with no judicial experience, whatsoever," Wachs said. What Kelly does have, however, is decades of work advancing conservative and Republican legal causes, and I suspect that is the only qualification that Governor Walker was looking for."
http://www.thewheelerreport.com/wheeler_docs/files/0722barcakelly_01.pdf
Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)disqualifier.
midnight
(26,624 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,819 posts)Electing Walker once could be considered an aberration. Supporting him during the recall could be considered a vote against the recall law. Electing him to a second term? No excuse for that. To quote Texan Dan Patrick "You reap what you sow".
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)rather sad
especially here is wisconsin