Politics & Government
State Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley Keeps Her Seat: Wisconsin Primary Election
The win for Gov. Scott Walker's controversial appointee means the state's high court stays conservative.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley, who Gov. Scott Walker appointed to the court last year, won a full term Tuesday, defeating Appeals Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Bradley's victory also keeps the state's high court right-leaning with a 5-2 conservative majority.
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Bradley has been a lightning rod for controversy since she was chosen in October to finish out the term of the late Justice N. Patrick Crooks. Walker had appointed her to two other court positions since 2012: the Milwaukee County Circuit Court in 2012 and the District 1 appeals court earlier in 2015.
The justice also took heat for 24-year-old columns and letters to the editors that disparaged homosexuals, the Journal Sentinel reports. Those writings characterized AIDS sufferers as "degenerates" and identified gays as "queers." Other writings by Bradley that were brought up during the campaign also equated abortion with the Holocaust.
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Although she apologized for her comments toward gays and said she didn't feel that way about homosexuals now, Bradley did not comment about the abortion writings, the report stated.
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