WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT: Dan Kelly (R) is a religious fanatic
In his Editor’s Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Regent University Law Review, the once and potentially future Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly was quite sure about both the provenance of law and its immutability.
“Law originates with God and is impressed on His creation, including mankind,” Kelly wrote in 1991, the year he turned 27, as a student at the religiously affiliated Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia. “We are, and must be, subject to the principles contained in Scripture.”
Kelly narrowly edged out fellow conservative Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Dorow in the Feb. 21 primary and is now facing Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal, in the April 4 general election. The outcome will determine whether liberals or conservatives hold the majority as the court prepares to rule on a challenge to the state’s 1849 abortion ban, as well as on the gerrymandering that has allowed Republicans to maintain a lock-grip on the state Legislature, and future fights over rules for and results from the 2024 presidential election.
Kelly’s embrace of extreme views related to his religious convictions is already well known. Even before he was tapped by Republican Gov. Scott Walker to fill a vacancy on the state Supreme Court in 2016, attention was drawn to his hardcore conservative views. In his application to Walker, Kelly included a book chapter in which he likened affirmative action to slavery (“both spring from the same taproot”) and warned that allowing same-sex couples to wed “will eventually rob the institution of marriage of any discernible meaning.”
In blog posts he wrote between 2012 and 2015, Kelly denegraded the 2012 re-election of President Barack Obama as a victory for “the socialism/same-sex marriage/recreational marijuana/tax increase crowd” and called abortion “a policy that has as its primary purpose harming children.” Kelly, the past president of the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society, has done legal work for Republican lawmakers and for Wisconsin Right to Life, which has endorsed him.
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