Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 35. Sunrise is 6:28 and sunset is 5:46, for 11 hours, 18 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 9.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1933, the film King Kong premieres in Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in New York City.
Brad Schimel’s political positions shift audience to audience, but he attracts a crowd among which expressions like ball and chain, little woman, the wife, and hausfrau are, let’s say, probably not uncommon. That’s his crowd, those are his people. He needs them in April.
And so, and so, there’s no surprise that he sees liberal women on the Wisconsin Supreme Court as overly emotional. Here’s Schimel on a radio show recorded in November:
“The other thing that I noted, there were times that when that camera went on several of the liberal justices, they were on the brink of losing it. You could see it in their eyes, and you could hear it in the tone of their voice,” he told conservative talker Meg Ellefson on WSAU-AM (550) and its sister stations in Wausau and Stevens Point. “They are being driven by their emotions. A Supreme Court justice had better be able to set their personal opinions and their emotions aside and rule on the law objectively. This is — we don’t have that objectivity on this court.”
(Emphasis in original.)
Asked about these remarks in February, Schimel was more specific:
“It’s plainly clear that that one of the justices, at least, was not able to stay objective. She had lost control of her emotions,” Schimel said after a roundtable talk at the GOP’s Hispanic center in Milwaukee. “Men do that, too, but she could not stay objective. In that case, she was literally yelling at an attorney.”
And which justice was that? Schimel clarified, “The one that was yelling at the attorney was Justice Karofsky. She was plainly yelling.”
See Daniel Bice, Was it sexist for Brad Schimel to say liberal justices, all women, were ‘driven by their emotions’?, February 28, 2025.
The oral argument was on 11.11.24; Justice Karofsky wasn’t yelling. She was conventionally and appropriately assertive, and no more so than many men on the bench in jurisdictions across the country. See Josh Kaul v. Joel Urmanski, 23AP2362 (Wis. Nov. 11, 2024) (oral argument) available at https://wiseye.org/2024/11/11/wisconsin-supreme-court-josh-kaul-v-joel-urmanski/.
It’s only ‘plainly clear‘ in Schimel’s mind, and the minds of those who share his outlook. Schimel knows that few in his crowd will review the full recording of oral argument at the court, and even if they were to do so, they’d not have a statewide or national context for what they saw.
They’ll simply take Schimel’s unreliable word for it.
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