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</font></div><div><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court race in April <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/16/wisconsin-state-supreme-court-race-abortion-00077958" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>could determine</u></a> the future of politics in the swing state, Politico reports.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Following conservative Justice Patience Roggensack's stepping down, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">her available seat leaves room for the court to not only tip to majority Democrat for the next two years, but also determine the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">future for important issues like abortion rights, voting rights and redistricting.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Court will likely hear a case that challenges Wisconsin’s abortion ban “in the near future”, according to Politico. To make matters more complicated for the court, Republican Justice Brian Hagedorn has been known to side with the liberal justices on past cases.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/energized-democrats-pennsylvania-wisconsin-2023/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong>Energized Democrats in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin could face 'an unprecedented level of chaos' in 2023</strong></u></a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, Ben Wikler, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/16/wisconsin-state-supreme-court-race-abortion-00077958" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>has called</u></a> the critical race “the most important election that nobody’s ever heard of.” He said, “It has implications that will affect national politics for years to come, really at every level of government.”</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But first, before a new justice is determined, voters will cast their ballots in a February primary election. Potential candidates include former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly, a Republican, Judge Jennifer Dorow of Waukesha County, who became known for how she handled the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack, also a Republican and Democratic Judges Everett Mitchell of Dane County and Janet Protasiewicz of Milwaukee County.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Because the race is so crucial to the future of some of the most important social issues today, many advocacy groups, both Republican and Democrat leaning, are expected to spend millions of dollars on ads for their preferred candidate.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Conservative group Fair Courts America, which is financially supported by businessman and billionaire Richard Uihlein, has pledged “millions of dollars” to Judge Kelly’s campaign.</b> And Stephen Billy, the Vice President of State Affairs at the anti-abortion group <b>Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America</b>, confirmed the group will also contribute to the race “to make sure that Wisconsin doesn’t end up with a fabricated right to abortion decided by activist judges.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE:</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/wisconsin-governor-slams-his-trump-backed-gop-opponent-as-a-danger-to-our-democracy" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong> </strong><u><strong>'The quiet part out loud': Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial nominee makes extreme promise to supporters if he wins</strong></u></a>
</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On the other side of the political aisle, Planned Parenthood is planning to drop “six figures” on the race, in addition to coordinating voter education campaigns.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Aside from partisan groups and individuals, there are also those who are choosing to remain "neutral," such as Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers. Although he hasn't stated his partisan position, he called the race “huge.” He said, “The Supreme Court has leaned conservative on almost all of the issues. So yes, this is a big deal.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) is also staying neutral in the primary, but is in the process of ramping up their political efforts. Chair of the organization, former attorney general Eric Holder, has plans to travel to Wisconsin for the general election, according to Politico.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As the race quickly approaches, the state’s Republican Party is paying close attention to Democrats.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/abortion-2659206045/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong>Anti-abortion Republicans have 'learned nothing' from their midterms disappointments: columnist</strong></u></a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Wisconsin Republican Party said, “It is becoming clear the Democrats want to use the Supreme Court as a vehicle to circumvent legislators who actually make policy decisions.” He continued, “If the liberals pick up another seat, they will have a rock-solid majority that never deviates from liberal activism.”</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gracie Skogman, with anti-abortion organization Wisconsin Right to Life, said when it comes to ensuring their base is ready for the race, “there’s a long way to go.”</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She asserted, “The unfortunate news is the majority of voters that we have interacted with are not aware of the stakes of the election, the candidates who are on the ballot, the views of the candidate, or the tie between our current pro-life statutes and the results of the election.”</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE:</strong> <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/how-abortion-and-redistricting-are-firing-up-state-supreme-court-races-in-2022" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>How abortion rights and redistricting are firing up state supreme court races in 2022</strong></a></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
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For 126 years under the Wisconsin’s Constitution, the title of Chief Justice has been given to the longest serving member, but sticking to that plan would leave critical thinkers in charge for decades to come. Abrahamson was reelected as Chief to a 10 year term in 2009 with 60% of the vote. After Abrahamson, Justice Anne Walsh Bradley, who has fought to keep partisan politics out of the courts, would be next in line.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12706/wi-gop-moves-vendetta-amendment-against-chief-justice-abrahamson" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">CMD previously reported </a>the threat of having a Chief who was not under their thumb was simply too much for Team Walker and his dark money allies. The GOP controlled legislature urged on by WMC and the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity backed a Constitutional Amendment to get rid of the Chief and rushed to get it on the low-turn out spring ballot.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As veteran Milwaukee journalist <a rel="nofollow" href="http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2015/04/16/murphys-law-shirley-abrahamson-against-the-world/" target="blank" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Bruce Murphy put it</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 5px 0px 25px; padding: 15px 15px 15px 30px; border: none; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Proponents of the measure have said it’s about displacing seniority with democracy, but declined to make it effective in 2019, when Abrahamson’s term ends, leaving no doubt this was a get-Shirley amendment.” And let’s not forget the unseemly, undisclosed lobbying by other justices </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/some-wisconsin-supreme-court-justices-urging-senators-to-support-amendment-b99157985z1-234909801.html" target="blank" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; line-height: 20.8px;">hoping to be Chief</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, including </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pat “Patience” Roggensack.</b></font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To orchestrate a <b>constitutional coup a phony “vote yes” group was formed by Rogensack’s former campaign manager and WMC piled on the cash in a $600,000 ad blitz saying it was all about “democracy.” </b>In the final weekend before election day, the liberal Greater Milwaukee Committee fielded an extra $200,000 in ads, but it was too late to make a difference.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Perhaps if the WMC ads had explained that they were unseating the chief and purchasing the best court money could buy, the result may have been different. But it was no surprise when, as the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/editorial/chief-justice-abrahamson-is-right-to-seek-clarification-of-conflict/article_8d8c73ed-ec09-5c46-9bc1-894901d0761f.html" target="blank" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Capital Times </em>explained</a>: “They secured a narrow<b> 53 percent to 47 percent victory in a low-turnout election; barely 10 percent of Wisconsin’s voting-age population supported the deliberately confusing amendment.</b>”  Court observers tracking the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2015/01/20/the-we-hate-shirley-amendment/" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">“We Hate Shirley” </a>amendment assumed that she would soon lose her title and her authority.  </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the feisty 81-year old Chief Justice is not taking the dark money onslaught lying down. She filed a federal lawsuit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thewheelerreport.com/wheeler_docs/files/0408abrahamson.pdf" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">(documents here)</a> brought by one of the nation’s most respected constitutional lawyers, <b>Robert Peck of the Center for Constitutional Litigation, </b>arguing that changing the rules concerning how a Chief is selected in the middle of her term violates the Equal Protection and Due Process rights of the chief herself and the voters who elected her under the U.S. Constitution.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While WMC lobbyists and right-wing politicians are fuming at this audacious move, respected constitutional scholar David Schwartz, Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin had a different view.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief Judge Abrahamson’s decision to file a suit in federal court is a “sensible and appropriate way” to resolve a complicated question of how to interpret the new Wisconsin amendment which was silent on when it should take effect. “Changing the rules in the middle of the game violates fundamental fairness that is guaranteed by the Due Process Clause. It would violate both her rights and the rights of voters who elected her in the expectation that she would be Chief Justice,” Schwartz tells CMD. “Note that the Chief Justice’s suit challenges only the retroactive application of the law, and does not question the right of the people of Wisconsin to restructure its court system in general, or to change the rules for selecting a chief justice at the next vacancy of that position.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, Schwartz explained that “by suing in federal court, Chief Justice Abrahamson seeks a resolution by neutral judges who have no personal stake in the outcome of the case.  Since the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices have a personal stake in the case, it would be problematic for them to try resolve the question themselves.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Walker to Anoint Lawyers in the Abrahamson Challenge?</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the dark money men at the WiCFG are also not backing down. WiCFG director Eric O’Keefe is apparently so awash in money that he has teams of both state and federal attorneys “building a court they can bend to their will,” as judicial watcher <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nan-aron/building-a-court-they-can_b_7032886.html" target="blank" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Nan Aron from the Alliance for Justice put it</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last year, O’Keefe <a rel="nofollow" href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/the-memos-torture-redefined/?r=0#rivkin" target="blank" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="15" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">hired federal lawyer <b>David Rivkin</b></a><b> </b></span><b>to unleash a swarm of frivolous lawsuits related to the campaign finance probe</b>. Rivkin, last spotted defending Bush’s torture memo in the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</em>,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> filed suit in federal court to try blocking the investigation. O’Keefe had some<b> initial success with a far-right judge <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12489/federal-judge-who-halted-walker-dark-money-criminal-probe-attends-koch-judicial" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">who regularly attended Koch judicial junkets,</a> </b>but he was eventually slapped down by famed conservative jurist Frank Easterbrook on the 7th Circuit.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But O’Keefe, who <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12714/eric-okeefe-james-okeefe-mike-ellis" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="17" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">funded infamous hatchet man James O’Keefe</a> the year he took down a Republican State Senator standing in Walker’s way, is not done.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last week, Rivkin went after the Chief Justice herself in a federal suit. In a bizarre twist, Rivkin’s suit cited newspaper articles describing an incident when Justice Prosser called the Chief “a bitch” and threatened to “destroy her” and another article when Prosser <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/124546064.html" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="18" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">nearly choked Justice Bradley</a> to somehow make the case that it was <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Abrahamson</em> and not Prosser who was out of control. (He missed Prosser’s <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/david-prosser-turned-sleuth-in-owi-case-before-high-court-b99474570z1-298602081.html" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="19" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">latest ethical stumble</a>.)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rivkin purported to represent Wisconsin voters who backed the constitutional amendment. But Milwaukee reporter Bruce Murphy <a rel="nofollow" href="http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2015/04/16/murphys-law-shirley-abrahamson-against-the-world/" target="blank" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="20" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">quickly spotted</a> the usual cast of characters, deeply tied to both Scott Walker and Eric O’Keefe. Eric O’Keefe is on the <b>CRG</b> [CFG?]Board, says Murphy. In 2014, Rivkin helped CRG file another lawsuit in U.S. District Court challenging the legality of state laws banning coordination between political candidates and dark money groups. CRG was last in the news working with the David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity group to stop — horrors! — <a rel="nofollow" href="http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2015/01/20/murphys-law-koch-funded-group-backs-anti-streetcar-drive/" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="21" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; line-height: 20.8px;">a proposed trolley system in Milwaukee</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Rivkin’s gambit to intervene in the Abrahamson case was wisely rebuffed by the federal judge James Peterson.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And in the latest odd twist to the case<em style="box-sizing: inherit;"> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/justice-crooks-rips-abrahamson-for-digging-in-heels-on-job-b99482661z1-300198131.html" target="blank" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="22" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a></em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/justice-crooks-rips-abrahamson-for-digging-in-heels-on-job-b99482661z1-300198131.html" target="blank" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="23" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"> reported</a> that counsel for the Supreme Court justices named in the Chief’s suit will be appointed by none other than Governor Scott Walker.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Abrahamson and her attorney should protest. While Walker might think he runs the courts, he doesn’t yet. If private counsel is needed by any judge it is the policy of the state courts that the Director of the State Courts appoint outside counsel, not the governor.</font></p></div><div class="entry_footer yr-entry-footer" id="entry-footer" data-rapid-parsed="sec" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="byline-footer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; display: flex; border-top: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);"><div class="byline-footerauthors yr-authors" data-rapid-subsec="authors" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="author-card author-card--byline-footer yr-author-card" data-rapid-cpos="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; line-height: 1.125rem;"><div class="author-carddetails" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: row wrap;"><div class="author-cardname" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="author-card__link yr-author-name" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/mary-bottari" data-rapid-pos="2" data-ylk="subsec:authors;cpos:1;pos:2;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mary Bottari</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Five years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the floodgates to unlimited (and often secret) election spending by “independent” groups in the Citizens United decision.</div><div>
</div><div>Yet the court has consistently upheld limits on direct contributions to candidates, which means that anti-coordination rules are one of the final bulwarks against a completely lawless campaign finance landscape.</div><div>
</div><div>After all, if a candidate can coordinate with “independent” groups that — in the wake of Citizens United — take unlimited, secret donations, then the candidate contribution limits and disclosure requirements are rendered meaningless. Donors who max out on their campaign contributions would have another conduit for giving money. Special interests seeking political favors — but not public scrutiny — could curry favor with candidates without questions from the media.</div><div>
</div><div>Indeed, according to evidence that has been made public in the long-running John Doe investigation into alleged coordination between the Scott Walker campaign and Wisconsin Club for Growth, <b>out-of-state mining company Gogebic Taconite </b>made a secret $700,000 donation to the club during the recall elections.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This was 22 times the amount that the mining company had disclosed in donations to Wisconsin candidates. And the public never knew about this massive contribution as the hotly contested mining bill sought by Gogebic Taconite was being debated.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Although Walker claims not to have solicited the donation, he did fundraise for Wisconsin Club for Growth. And when he did, he was advised to call it “your 501c4,” and to emphasize that — in contrast with contributions to his campaign — donations would be kept secret, and that for-profit corporations could give, too.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Walker campaign and Wisconsin Club for Growth have fought back against the probe not by denying coordination, but by arguing that the coordination rules don’t apply as long as the coordinated ads omit words like “vote for” or “vote against.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>If this were the case, there is nothing stopping a candidate, Democrat or Republican, from forming a nonprofit that takes secret, unlimited funds, and having it operate out of their campaign office. As long as their coordinated electoral ads stop short of express advocacy, it would be perfectly legal.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Plus, if groups running these so-called “issue ads” are entirely exempt from Wisconsin campaign finance law, there is really nothing stopping foreign interests from pouring money into Wisconsin elections. Chinese companies looking to buy up Wisconsin farmland could donate millions to the next gubernatorial candidate’s dark money nonprofit group without the public ever knowing.</span></div><div>
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</div><div>This lawless campaign finance landscape is what Wisconsin Club for Growth is fighting for with its<b> barrage of lawsuits against the John Doe investigation</b>. And it's what’s at stake with their case currently pending before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Yet there are serious questions about whether the court can be impartial. Wisconsin Club for Growth and <b>Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, </b>the two primary groups under investigation in the probe, have spent over $10 million to elect the court’s Republican majority, in most cases spending more than the justices’ own campaigns.</div><div>
</div><div>In other words, the future of the investigation — and with it, the state’s anti-coordination rules — could be decided by justices whose elections were in large part financed by precisely the organizations facing criminal liability.</div><div>
</div><div>The stakes are high. But if you read right-wing media, you’d be led to believe this is entirely about “free speech,” and that the entire investigation was a “partisan witch hunt.” How did a bipartisan investigation get counter-factually contorted into a politically motivated "witch hunt" by Democrats against Republicans?</div><div>
</div><div>GET CAP TIMES</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Key to the spin surrounding the probe has been the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity’s “Wisconsin Reporter” website, which has produced more than 165 stories (and counting) attacking the investigation as “Wisconsin’s secret war,” and recasting the coordination laws as unconstitutional and the investigation as illegitimate.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>But Franklin Center/“Wisconsin Reporter” has failed to regularly disclose that it was launched and funded by Eric O'Keefe, Wisconsin Club for Growth’s director and the chief plaintiff in the lawsuits challenging the probe.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Franklin’s president, Jason Stverak, previously worked for O’Keefe. Nor has the group disclosed that its director of special projects, John Connors, is also president of Citizens for a Strong America, another group facing criminal liability in the investigation and which is almost entirely funded by Wisconsin Club for Growth.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Read more in the Center for Media and Democracy’s new report, "The Assault on Clean Election Laws: The Well-Funded Campaign to Legalize Coordination in Wisconsin and Nationwide." </div><div>
</div><div>Brendan Fischer is general counsel for the Center for Media and Democracy.</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Patience Drake Roggensack</b> is the chief justice of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>. She was elected to the court in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/C2003" title="C2003" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2003</a> and re-elected in 2013. Her current term expires on July 31, 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-resultsa_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-resultsa-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> On April 29, 2015, her fellow justices elected her <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Chief_justice" title="Chief justice" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">chief justice</a> of the court. She succeeded longtime Chief Justice <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shirley Abrahamson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ncj_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-ncj-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Education</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack received her B.A. in zoology from Drake University in 1962 and her <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/J.D." title="J.D." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">J.D.</a> from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Career</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" bullet-icon.png="bullet-icon.png" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>2003-2023:</b> Justice, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a></font><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" bullet-icon.png="bullet-icon.png"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elected in 2003 and 2013</font></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>1996-2003:</b> Judge, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Court_of_Appeals" title="Wisconsin Court of Appeals" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Court of Appeals</a></font><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" bullet-icon.png="bullet-icon.png"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elected in 1996 and 2002</font></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>1980-1996:</b> Attorney in private practice<sup id="cite_ref-bio_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-bio-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Awards_and_associations"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Awards and associations</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" bullet-icon.png="bullet-icon.png" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Member, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/American_Judicature_Society" title="American Judicature Society" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Judicature Society</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fellow, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Bar Association</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board member, YMCA</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board member, YWCA</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board member, Olbrich Botanical Society</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board member, Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board member, Friends of the Arboretum</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board member, A Fund for Women</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Past president, Western District, Wisconsin Bar Association</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Past member, Bench-Bar Committee, State Bar of Wisconsin</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Past president, International Women's Forum<sup id="cite_ref-bio_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-bio-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elections</font></span></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="2013"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2013</font></span></h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_judicial_elections,2013" title="Wisconsin judicial elections, 2013" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin judicial elections, 2013</a></font></i></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack ran successfully for re-election to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>, defeating Marquette Professor <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ed_Fallone" title="Ed Fallone" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ed Fallone</a> in the April 2 general election with 57.5 percent of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> In the February 19 primary, she received 63.9 percent of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-resultsa_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-resultsa-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-resultsb_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-resultsb-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="2003"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2003</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack ran for election to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> in 2003. She defeated Ed Brunner, winning 51.1 percent of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="2002"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2002</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack was re-elected to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Court_of_Appeals" title="Wisconsin Court of Appeals" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Court of Appeals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_4-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-bio-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="1996"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1996</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack was elected to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Court_of_Appeals" title="Wisconsin Court of Appeals" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Court of Appeals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_4-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-bio-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="1995"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1995</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>, losing in the primary election.</font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_affiliation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political affiliation</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Judicial_selection_in_the_states" title="Judicial selection in the states" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Only nine states</a> hold partisan elections for their appellate courts. Other states hold <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Nonpartisan_election_of_judges" title="Nonpartisan election of judges" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">nonpartisan elections</a> or use a combination of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Assisted_appointment(judicial_selection)" title="Assisted appointment (judicial selection)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">appointments</a>and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Retention" title="Retention" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">retention</a> elections.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nonpartisan elections in some states require judges to declare their partisan affiliations; in other states, judges are not required to declare a political affiliation and in fact may be prohibited from doing so.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ballotpedia collects information about the political and ideological leanings of judges to offer better context for court decisions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are selected in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Nonpartisan_election_of_judges" title="Nonpartisan election of judges" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">nonpartisan judicial elections</a> by the voters of Wisconsin.</b> In the case of a vacancy, the governor can appoint a new justice, but that justice must stand run for election in the next subsequent year in which no other justice will be elected.</font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections_and_appointment"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elections and appointment</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack first joined the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> after winning a nonpartisan election in 2003. She was re-elected in a nonpartisan election in 2013. Before joining the court, she was elected to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Court_of_Appeals" title="Wisconsin Court of Appeals" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Court of Appeals</a> in nonpartisan elections in 1996 and was re-elected in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_4-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-bio-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_contributions"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political contributions</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to campaign finance records, Roggensack has generally limited her donations to nonpartisan candidates also running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Notably, she has donated to fellow Justice Abrahamson, whom she had replaced as chief justice in 2015. Abrahamson is generally considered a more liberal justice than Roggensack. Justice Roggensack did make one donation to a <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic" title="Democratic" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic</a> candidate in 2004, who went on to become a nonpartisan judge.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Year</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Race</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contribution</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won/Lost</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1989</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Supreme Court</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Shirley Abrahamson</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1994</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Supreme Court</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Janine_P.Geske" title="Janine P. Geske" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Janine P. Geske</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$175</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>1995</b></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wisconsin Supreme Court</b></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Patience Roggensack (self)</b></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>$94,067</b></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Lost</b></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1995</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Supreme Court</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/N.Patrick_Crooks" title="N. Patrick Crooks" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">N. Patrick Crooks</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$650</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lost</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1997</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Supreme Court</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jon_Wilcox" title="Jon Wilcox" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jon Wilcox</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$175</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1999</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Supreme Court</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Shirley Abrahamson</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$250</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Superintendent_of_Public_Instruction" title="Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elizabeth Burmaster</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$250</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2003</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wisconsin Supreme Court</b></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Patience Roggensack (self)</b></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>$224,666</b></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Wisconsin State Assembly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wisconsin State Assembly</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Pedro_Col%C3%B3n" title="Pedro Colón" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pedro Colón</a> <b>(D)</b></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$50</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2013</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Supreme Court</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patience Roggensack (self)</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$9,748</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Won</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Campaign finance records also show that her husband, George Roggensack, has consistently donated to <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" title="Republican" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Republican</a> candidates including <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Speaker of the House</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Paul Ryan</a> and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Senator</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ron_Johnson" title="Ron Johnson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Ron Johnson</a>, as well as the Republican National Committee. Some of Justice Roggensack's donations have been co-listed with her husband; however, the partisan political donations appear to have been made only in his name.</span><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-11" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[1</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-11" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">1]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_donors"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political donors</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The following table includes the top five organizations that donated to Roggensack's campaigns for the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> according to publicly available campaign finance records.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donor</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contribution</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Republican Party</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$35,873</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Realtor's Association</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$8,625</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Medical Association</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$5,000</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican Party of Milwaukee County</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,500</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin Builder's Association</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,000</font></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Endorsements_and_scorecards"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Endorsements and scorecards</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In her most recent election, Roggensack was endorsed by the Wisconsin Family Council's WFA-PAC. The Wisconsin Family Council is a socially conservative Christian organization.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> Roggensack was also endorsed by the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, the largest organization of law enforcement officials in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_ideology"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political ideology</font></span></h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Political_ideology_of_State_Supreme_Court_Justices" title="Political ideology of State Supreme Court Justices" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Political ideology of State Supreme Court Justices</a></font></i></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Roggensack received a campaign finance score of 0.67, indicating a conservative ideological leaning.</b> This is more conservative than the average score of 0.42 that justices received in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The study is based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study is not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Chief_justice_controversy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief justice controversy</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The voters of Wisconsin voted to pass <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_Chief_Justice_Amendment,Question_1(April_2015)" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Amendment, Question 1 (April 2015)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution known as Question 1</a>, thereby changing how the supreme court chief justice is selected. State election officials certified results from the April 7 vote on April 29, 2015. That same day, the justices of the supreme court held a vote over email. The conservatives, who make up a majority of the court, voted together to make <strong class="selflink">Patience Roggensack</strong> the chief justice, removing long-time Chief Justice <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shirley Abrahamson</a> from the position.<sup id="cite_ref-ncj_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-ncj-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For her part, Abrahamson began litigation that, if successful, would allow her to remain in the court's top position until 2019, when her term expires. Her suit, filed in federal court, claims her rights under the United States and Wisconsin constitutions would be violated if she is not allowed to remain chief justice until her term ends. She filed the suit on April 8, the day after voters approved the amendment. In her lawsuit, Abrhamson asserted that</font></p><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td width="20" valign="top" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; padding: 10px 3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“</font></td><td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[if] the term of the current, elected chief justice will be disrupted, her constitutionally protected interest in the office of chief justice will be impaired, the votes of her supporters will be diluted and the results of the 2009 election undone long after-the-fact, while the Wisconsin court system's leadership will become unsettled.<sup id="cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a></sup></font></td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">”</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;"><cite style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—Robert Peck, Lawyer for Shirley Abrahamson<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a></sup></font></cite></td></tr></tbody></table><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The response from the conservatives on the court, via their lawyer in federal court, has been that, with the voter approval of the amendment, the chief justice position is automatically vacant upon certification of the results.</span><sup id="cite_ref-ncj_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-ncj-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> To learn more about Abrahamson's lawsuit, visit her page </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ann_Walsh_Bradley" title="Ann Walsh Bradley" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ann Walsh Bradley</a> was disappointed with the vote, saying that it is not a settled question whether this constitutional amendment is retroactive in application. Justice <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Michael_Gableman" title="Michael Gableman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael Gableman</a>, a Roggensack supporter, responded to Bradley's argument.</font></p><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td width="20" valign="top" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; padding: 10px 3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“</font></td><td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part of the judge's written decision when he denied Chief Justice Abrahamson's request for a temporary restraining order to block the members of the court from voting for a new chief justice reads: 'When and how to implement a duly passed amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution is a question of state law, not federal law.<sup id="cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_16-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a></sup></font></td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">”</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;"><cite style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—Justice Michael Gableman<sup id="cite_ref-ncj_2-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-ncj-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a></sup></font></cite></td></tr></tbody></table><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Federal Judge </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/James_Peterson" title="James Peterson" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">James Peterson</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, who is hearing Abrahamson's case, said he desired for a vote to be put on hold until he ruled, but he has also declined three requests from Abrahamson to block the vote.</span><sup id="cite_ref-ncj_2-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-ncj-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jso_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-jso-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voting for chief justice was technically open until Friday, May 1, 2015, but it was doubtful any justice would change their mind or their vote.<sup id="cite_ref-ncj_2-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-ncj-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Friday, May 15, upon declining the third request to allow Abrahamson to serve as chief justice, Judge Peterson said she would have trouble winning the lawsuit. He told Abrahamson's lawyer that he was "breaking new ground" with his arguments in the case. Peterson said that a central question is whether Abrahamson had sufficient warning she would lose her position upon the amendment's passing.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a meeting to discuss court rules on Wednesday, June 10, Abrahamson and Roggensack had a tense exchange, with Roggensack telling Abrahamson she was "out of order." Bradley also voiced disagreement with Roggensack, objecting to going into a closed meeting that not all justices had agreed to.<sup id="cite_ref-st_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-st-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peterson said he hoped to rule on Abrahamson's lawsuit shortly after a July 1 deadline for legal filings.<sup id="cite_ref-st_20-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-st-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> On Friday, July 31, he issued a 35-page opinion dismissing the lawsuit, ruling that the court was within its authority to strip Abrahamson of her title.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Judicial_philosophy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judicial philosophy</font></span></h2><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td width="20" valign="top" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; padding: 10px 3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“</font></td><td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judicial philosophy is important. It is important for the people to know how the judge views the job of judging.</font><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you interpret [a] statute by trying to figure out what the legislature was trying to do, I believe you are operating consistent with our constitution, which gives separate functions to each branch. I don't like everything the legislature puts out… but that's not my job to decide if it's wise public policy.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I don't like every decision I read. I don't even like every decision I write, but unless it's unconstitutional, I don't get to change the law.<sup id="cite_ref-art13_22-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-art13-22" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_16-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a></sup></font></p></td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">”</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;"><cite style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—Justice Patience Roggensack</font></cite></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Notable_cases"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notable cases</font></span></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="John_Doe_investigations"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Doe investigations</font></span></h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Doe_investigations_related_to_Scott_Walker" title="John Doe investigations related to Scott Walker" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Doe investigations related to Scott Walker</a></font></i></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Doe_investigation" title="John Doe investigation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Doe investigations</a> were launched by Milwaukee County District Attorney <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Chisholm" title="John Chisholm" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Chisholm</a> (D) into the activities of staff and associates of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Scott_Walker" title="Scott Walker" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Governor Scott Walker</a> (R). These investigations and the events surrounding them have been described as "the most tumultuous political events in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin</a> in generations—perhaps in history."<sup id="cite_ref-USDCED_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-USDCED-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A John Doe investigation is a special investigation into alleged criminal activity. The judge who orders and oversees it can require that the investigation be conducted in secret, essentially imposing a strict gag order on those involved. Targets of such investigations are not allowed to speak about the investigation, and their lawyers play a very limited role. John Doe investigations, defined in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Doe_investigation#Full_statute" title="John Doe investigation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wis. Stat. section 968.26</a>, are "intended as independent, investigatory tools to ascertain whether a crime has been committed and, if so, by whom."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup>
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first investigation, referred to as John Doe I, started in May 2010 when then-<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Milwaukee_County,Wisconsin" title="Milwaukee County, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Milwaukee County</a> Executive Scott Walker was running for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">governor of Wisconsin</a>. That investigation was closed in March 2013 but overlapped with a second investigation, John Doe II, which began in August 2012 and was effectively halted in early 2014 by both state and federal lawsuits filed against the parties involved in the investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-USDCED_23-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-USDCED-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WD128317_26-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-WD128317-26" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Doe_investigations_related_to_Scott_Walker#State_Supreme_Court_halts_investigation" title="John Doe investigations related to Scott Walker" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">officially put an end to the investigations</a> in a 4-2 ruling on July 16, 2015, noting that "a state law outlawing such coordination was 'unconstitutionally overbroad and vague under the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bill_of_Rights,United_States_Constitution#Amendment_I" title="Bill of Rights, United States Constitution" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">First Amendment</a>'" and that "the special prosecutor's legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law."<sup id="cite_ref-hostmad_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-hostmad-27" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-decision_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-decision-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> Roggensack voted with and supported the majority opinion.<sup id="cite_ref-decision_28-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-decision-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The use of the John Doe proceeding in these two investigations became the subject of dispute for several reasons. First, the investigations appeared to be politically motivated because they targeted only prominent conservative political figures and organizations, while allowing <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Doe_investigations_related_to_Scott_Walker#Disparate_treatment" title="John Doe investigations related to Scott Walker" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">similar abuses by left-leaning operatives</a> to go unpunished. Second, the scope of the investigations expanded far beyond the original complaint and appeared to be an a open-ended fishing expedition aimed at criminalizing political activity. And finally, the secrecy order appeared to violate basic constitutional rights of the targets, who were not allowed to defend themselves before the judge or the public.<sup id="cite_ref-USDCED_23-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-USDCED-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, the prosecutors involved in bringing the John Doe investigations, including at least one Republican, contended they stayed within the bounds of the law and the Constitution and maintained that the people opposed to the investigations were spinning a false narrative.<sup id="cite_ref-narrative_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-narrative-29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cmd_30-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Patience_Roggensack#cite_note-cmd-30" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></p><table class="navbox" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); clear: both; margin: 1em 0em 0em; padding: 2px; text-align: center; width: 948px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 2px;"><table cellspacing="0" class="nowraplinks collapsible autocollapse" id="collapsibleTable0" style="width: 944px; background: transparent;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="navbox-title" style="background: rgb(187, 204, 238); padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;"><span class="collapseButton" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; text-align: right; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<a id="collapseButton0" style="background: none; white-space: nowrap;">show</a>]</font></span><div style="float: left; width: 6em; text-align: left;"><div class="noprint plainlinksneverexpand" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; border: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Template:John_Doe_investigations_hnt" title="Template:John Doe investigations hnt" style="text-decoration: none; background: none !important; padding: 0px !important;">v</a> • <a target="blank" class="external text" href="https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:John_Doe_investigations_hnt&action=edit" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" lock-icon.png="lock-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" padding-top="padding-top" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" padding-left="padding-left"><span title="You can edit this template. 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Her current term expires July 31, 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_D.Roggensack#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_career">Roggensack was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet,Illinois" title="Joliet, Illinois" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Joliet, Illinois</a>. She graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockport_Township_High_School" title="Lockport Township High School" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Lockport Township High School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockport,Illinois" title="Lockport, Illinois" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Lockport, Illinois</a>; she then received her bachelor's degree from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_University" title="Drake University" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Drake University</a> in 1962, and her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">law degree</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_Law_School" title="University of Wisconsin Law School" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">University of Wisconsin Law School</a> in 1980. Roggensack then practiced law in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,Wisconsin" title="Madison, Wisconsin" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Madison, Wisconsin</a>.Early life and career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patience_D.Roggensack&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack's daughter, Ellen Brostrom, serves as a circuit court judge in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Milwaukee County" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Milwaukee County</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_D.Roggensack#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Judge.2C_Justice.2C_and_Chief_Justice">Judge, Justice, and Chief Justice</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patience_D.Roggensack&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Judge, Justice, and Chief Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before joining the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Roggensack was elected to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in 1996 and re-elected in 2002. Prior to serving on the Court of Appeals, she practiced law for 16 years, including at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt_Ross%26_Stevens_S.C." title="DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C.</a> firm in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,Wisconsin" title="Madison, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Madison</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roggensack was elected to the position of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice" title="Chief Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chief Justice</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> by her peers on April 29, 2015 following the certification of votes from the April 2015 election. Voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that changed the way that the chief justice of the Supreme Court was selected. Previously the justice with the most seniority held the position, but the amendment allowed court members to choose the chief justice.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following the justices' election of Justice Roggensack as the new chief justice, former Chief Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shirley Abrahamson</a> filed a federal lawsuit challenging the implementation of the constitutional amendment, which was heard on May 15, 2015. Five of the seven justices asked the federal judge to dismiss Abrahamson’s lawsuit.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_D.Roggensack#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> On May 15, 2015 the federal court denied Abrahamson's request for immediate reinstatement as Chief Justice. U.S. District Judge James Peterson determined there was no harm in Roggensack serving as chief justice while Abrahamson's lawsuit continues.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_D.Roggensack#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patience_D.Roggensack&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Notes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_D.Roggensack#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2781&keyword=roggensack" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Patience D. 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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shirley Abrahamson</a></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 322.175px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice" title="Chief Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chief Justice</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a></b>
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Big grants also went to other organizations playing in judicial politics — including $400,000 in 2011 for <b>Wisconsin Club for Growth, </b>a major actor in that state’s shift to a conservative Supreme Court majority.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wisconsin Club for Growth was also aided by JCN to the tune of more than half-a-million dollars from mid-2012 to mid-2013 as JCN began to function as a dark money conduit like Wellspring<b>. The Wisconsin group spent close to $400,000 to help win a second 10-year term for Justice Patience Roggensack.</b></font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conservative control of the Wisconsin court, enabled in no small part by the big pots of dark money dumped into the state, has proved vital to the rejection of challenges to two signature conservative policies championed by GOP Gov. Scott Walker: his initiatives to<b> curb public sector unions and to require voter IDs</b>. (The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to the voter ID law, so it will stand.)</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And an investigation into whether Walker illegally coordinated efforts with several groups — including Wisconsin Club for Growth — in the run-up to his 2012 recall vote now depends on a ruling by the state’s justices. The special prosecutor leading the probe <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/john-doe-prosecutor-asks-one-or-more-justice-to-step-aside-b99444515z1-291866271.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">has asked at least one</a> — perhaps all four — of the court’s conservatives to recuse themselves because of support they have gotten from the groups. (Given recent history and the state’s <a href="http://www.wisciviljusticecouncil.org/policy-project/legislative-report-special-legislative-committee-studies-judicial-discipline-and-recusal/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">weak judicial conduct rules</a>, court observers say that seems unlikely.)</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>