{"id":184435,"date":"2012-05-01T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/01\/what-a-crybaby\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T00:43:00","slug":"what-a-crybaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/01\/what-a-crybaby\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Crybaby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Prosser is now claiming that the judicial investigation of his choking of a fellow justice is <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/crime_and_courts\/justice-prosser-says-investigation-of-him-violates-his-rights\/article_604f8164-9330-11e1-907e-001a4bcf887a.html\">an infringement of his speech rights<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser said Monday that the Wisconsin Judicial Commission&#8217;s investigation into his alleged ethical violations is itself a violation of his constitutional rights, according to a court filing.<\/p>\n<p>Prosser, the subject of an ethics complaint filed in March with the Supreme Court, said in his response to the complaint Monday that the commission &#8220;may not investigate or prosecute protected speech, advocacy and etiquette of Wisconsin Supreme Court justices when they are deliberating in confidential closed conferences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three alleged ethics violations stem from a June 13 incident in which Prosser acknowledges putting his hands around the neck of Justice Ann Walsh Bradley &#8220;to protect himself&#8221; and a February 2010 incident in which he admits calling Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson &#8220;a total bitch.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, it wasn&#8217;t a closed conference, it was a discussion in Bradley&#8217;s office, and he was asked to leave, and he is <b>alleged to have assaulted her<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Beating up on a woman is not, &#8220;deliberating in confidential closed conferences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, anyone want to bet that this isn&#8217;t the first time that he&#8217;s been &#8220;alleged&#8221; to have assaulted a woman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Prosser is now claiming that the judicial investigation of his choking of a fellow justice is an infringement of his speech rights: State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser said Monday that the Wisconsin Judicial Commission&#8217;s investigation into his alleged ethical violations is itself a violation of his constitutional rights, according to a court filing. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}