Judicial Hopeful Claims Conservative Title

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Judge Micheal Gableman says if he’s elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court he’ll give a “fair application to the plain language of the law.”It’s a judicial philosophy he says his opponent, Justice Louis Butler, has ignored.
But Gableman’s campaign has spent less time criticizing the fine points of Butler’s decisions than it’s spent presenting Gableman as a judge who’s tough on crime.In the process, Gableman has blatantly portrayed Butler as a Justice who sides with criminals, an attack critics say has damaged the integrity of the judicial system.Shawn Johnson reports…

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