Choosing the Supreme Court of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court: What Experts Want To Know – Daily Cardinal

The League of Women’s Voters of Dane County hosted an expert group on Thursday to discuss what voters should look for in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race before the April 1st Spring election.

The event “Choosing the Supreme Court of Justice” invited three local experts to discuss the competition: Professor of Wisconsin Legal School and State Court Expert Robert Yabllon, a retired Wisconsin Judge Paul Higinbot and lawyer Jeff Mandel. Experts have addressed the main goal and procedures of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and have responded to several sweatshirts about how to choose a candidate, the role of funding for the campaign and what the voters can expect in these elections.

How to evaluate the candidate

While this is a basic requirement outlined in Wisconsin Constitution That all candidates have been a licensed lawyer in Wisconsin for at least five years before the election, Yabllon said the State Supreme Court and the extensive experience of many current judges.

When evaluating a candidate, Yable said he was considering their experience and how it could be compared to the high intensity of the justice of the Supreme Court of the State.

Yablon also said that voters should look for several basic aspects of character, including humility, integrity and openness. The justice of the Supreme Court must be able to cancel its predisposed tendencies and act for the benefit of what is right, which means to listen with respect for your colleagues and to know how to say “not more of their opponents,” Yabllon said.

Yablon has completed its section reminding that an important role of the court “stable to our system of management and over -reacting from other branches” and that the choice of a candidate should include an assessment of their ability to do so.

The role of funding for the campaign in the Supreme Court race

Higinbotham who retired in 2017 after a long career Serviceing the Court of Appeal in Wisconsin and the Denn District Court discussed the role of money, in particular dark money, the Supreme Court elections.

Vapor refer of funding for campaigns or to influence a public policy whose source has not been disclosed.

Higinbotha emphasized the importance of understanding how dark money can affect the candidate’s campaign.

“Money is a speech,” he said.