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Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:52 AM and sunset 8:09 PM for 14h 16m 44s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 70.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1787, sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority fired courts director Randy Koschnick, but conservative ire has proved overwrought as the majority has replaced the conservative Koschnick with a Walker appointee, Milwaukee County Judge Audrey Skwierawski:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s new liberal majority chose an appointee of former Republican Gov. Scott Walker to serve as interim director of state courts just hours after the court’s conservative Chief Justice Annette Ziegler penned a letter Wednesday slamming the majority’s decision to fire the previous director, Randy Koschnick, as being politically motivated.
The court announced that Milwaukee County Judge Audrey Skwierawski will assume the role of interim director starting Thursday. Skwierawski was appointed to the bench by Walker in 2018.
The court’s liberals, who gained control of the body on Tuesday for the first time in 15 years with the swearing in of Justice Janet Protasiewicz, fired Koschnick in a three-sentence letter, writing that he would be let go at the end of the day Wednesday.
Koschnick, who has held his job since 2017, told media outlets earlier this week that he had received a call from Justice Jill Karofsky saying he’d be fired once the new majority was in place.
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A news release announcing Skwierawski’s hiring noted that she has worked with people across the political spectrum her entire career, including during a 14 year stint as a prosecutor in the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office. She also worked in the Wisconsin Department of Justice under Republican attorneys general J.B. Van Hollen and Brad Schimel.
Skwierawski is easily as qualified as Koschnick, and in any event appointee Koschnick wasn’t entitled to permanent public employment.
See also Journal Sentinel Focuses on a Minor Wisconsin Supreme Court Story (‘Koschnick has been lucky, in fact, that he found a conservative majority willing to give him another six years (2017-2023) on the state payroll after he left the Jefferson County bench’).
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