Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a 170-year-old abortion ban was not valid. Along with the obvious impact of this decision, it also highlighted next spring’s election for the state supreme court. The two candidates, incumbent Rebecca Bradley and Judge Chris Taylor couldn’t be more polar opposite on the issue of abortion.
Bradley, a Federalist, wrote the dissent to the ruling, and apparently to professionalism:
In a dissent to the majority opinion, Bradley, a conservative, wrote that the court’s liberal majority “not only does violence to a single statute; it defies the People’s sovereignty.” The majority’s decisions, she wrote, “are motivated by the policy predilections of its members.”
“Not content with effacing the law, Chief Justice Jill Karofsky rewrites history, erases and insults women by referring to mothers as ‘pregnant people,’ slanders proponents of the pro-life perspective, and broadcasts dangerously false narratives about laws restricting abortion,” Bradley wrote. “Laden with emotion, steeped in myth, and light on the law, the concurrence reads as a parody of progressive politics rather than the opinion of a jurist.”
