Kelly and Dorow are Federalist Society Conservatives fighting “liberal orthodoxy,” and dedicated to “reordering priorities within the legal system.

It's time we end the lie judge and Justice races are "nonpartisan?"  

The GOP Complaint Scheme, Press Falls for it #1:  The last straw for me came when a politically driven "complaint" was filed dialing up phony outrage, specifically designed for use against this Justice's reelection. :

A judicial oversight panel dismissed a complaint filed in 2021 against liberal-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky over comments she made during oral arguments in Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn the results...

Karofsky: “And for you to come forward today and start just using, throwing out allegations of fraud with zero evidence whatsoever. What — What is America?... It is not governance from a king. And what you want, is you want us to overturn this election so that your king can stay in power. And that is so un-American.” 

The commission said Karofsky should be more careful about appearing to have chosen a side in legal disputes.

Of course, liberal justices "should be more careful," but...

Karofsky's comments were a supposed violation, but not Justice Bradley's bizarre rant from the bench: This is a classic Bradley "fear of tyranny" moment, questioning the power of the state's health secretary during COVID, a power she was granted...

The GOP Complaint Scheme, Press Falls for it #2: Well, that seemed to work really well. Ready for this?

The state GOP to file a complaint with the Wisconsin Judicial Commission alleging Protasiewicz has violated judicial ethics rules. Conservative opponent Dan Kelly, who has called Protasiewicz an activist who is "a danger to our liberties," has prompted the state GOP to file a complaint with the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, alleging Protasiewicz has violated judicial ethics rules.

Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz (conveyed) her belief that women should be able to choose whether to continue pregnancies and has characterized the state's Republican-written legislative maps as "rigged" 

Nothing "literal" about Federalist doctrine of “originalism”: "Besides, Wisconsin has had a conservative majority for some time, why change," said Jennifer Darow? Justice candidate Darow went further, and openly said she will be submissive to Republicans laws, since they are the gerrymandered "voice of the people." Thank WISN report Matt Smith for follow-up questions:

Darow will protect us from a liberal push that will transform Wisconsin, in not a good way. Did we hear that right?

BREAKING: Dan Kelly not an "activist." Was he completely impartial the last two years working for Republicans? JSonline:

Former state Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt said in a deposition last year to the U.S. House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that he and Kelly had "pretty extensive conversations" about the fake elector scheme. Kelly was serving as the party's "special counsel" at the time.

Abortion Ban is now Constitutional, and candidate Dan Kelly says he will follow the Constitution. That's crystal clear:

Dan Kelly on Justice Hagedorn's slightly less predictable MAGA vote, noting a predictable justice is a good justice. Shaping a decision around a predetermined outcome: "We're just a little surprised at how he turned out." "We didn't have anything like a record we could point to...and that became a problem...he didn't mean the same things we mean...!

Kelly continues to inadvertently tell us how he'll vote...on public health policy (not laws):

In that case, Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Andrea Palm approved the state’s “safer at home” policy, under her department’s statutory authority to “promulgate and enforce rules or issue orders for guarding against the introduction of any communicable disease into the state.” Republicans in the Wisconsin State Legislature sued to block the order, and the Supreme Court’s four remaining conservatives agreed.

Here’s how Kelly, at Tuesday’s event, described what happened: “The Secretary of Human Services says, ‘You can’t go to work unless I tell you. You can’t take your children to school unless I tell you. You can’t go to church unless I tell you to. You can’t do anything unless I tell you to.’ ” Kelly said Palm “came into her Madison office [and typed up the stay-at-home order]. When she was done, she held that up and said, ‘Behold, my law that I just made up today. Legislators have never seen this. They never voted on it, but I made it.’ ”

Palm did not hold up the order and say this.

Walker's Legacy: His destructive politicization of the State Supreme Court may live on with Kelly.

Scott Walker wrote a guest editorial defending his partisan pick on the State Supreme Court with this mind-numbing brilliance:

"Justice Dan Kelly believes in the rule of law."

An amazing statement coming from an elite member of the Trump cult, where the "rule of law" has turned into a "ruling lawless" President. 

  

Walker is a constitutional originalist, meaning whatever changes came later were just an interpretation of "the Constitution with 'today in mind.'" 

"Dane County Judge Jill Karofsky ... is open about her progressive politics...she would interpret the Constitution with “today in mind,” instead of upholding what it actually says.

Second Amendment Fantasy: Walker's world imagines law in ways Republicans think they should be, shaping policy around utter fantasy, like the Second Amendment:

Karofsky called for gun control measures and said the Constitution allows limiting the possession of firearms.

Walker is wrong of course, purposely, because iconic conservative idol Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote exactly the opposite in District of Columbia v. Heller, something Walker has conveniently imagined away or never cared to read: 

In Justice Scalia’s words, it is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

[l]ike most rights, … is not unlimited. Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."

Justice Dan Kelly is NOT open about his conservative politics? Walker brands Judge Jill Karofsky as "open about her progressive politics," which must mean Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly is not. Wow, that's not true either:

1. Justice Kelly, who calls himself a judicial conservative.

2. Appointed to the high court in 2016 by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

3. Kelly helped "the GOP advance partisan gerrymandered voting districts. 

4. Kelly wrote a conservative blog praising Walker’s union restrictions and criticizing the “socialism/same-sex marriage/recreational marijuana/tax increase crowd.” 

5. "Kelly held a fundraiser at a firing range the day after a mass shooting at a Milwaukee brewery. His campaign had posted a picture of him on social media holding a semiautomatic weapon to appeal to gun groups."

6. "Active in the Milwaukee chapter of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal organization."

7. "He also briefly advised the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, the conservative law firm and think tank that frequently appears before the Supreme Court."

8. He's a wacky dominionist (seek to institute a nation governed by Christians). "Kelly graduated from Regent University, which was originally called Christian Broadcasting Network University when it was founded by televangelist Pat Robertson. Kelly said his own Christian faith is part of what drew him to the school."

9. He headquartered his campaign at the office of Wisconsin Republican Party, paying the party roughly $65,000 this year to cover rent, mailings and staff wages.

10. He authored a blog post where he criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that legalized gay marriage as judicial overreach.

Note: Republicans are about to use COVID-19's poll location closings in Milwaukee and Madison as a convenient tool to suppress votes for the Supreme Court race. With logic like this...

And the "corrupted by money" majority of conservative activist Justices sure don't seem nonpartisan to me...this is considered normal in Wisconsin now.