Um...

[Trigger warning for assault]



This June, I wrote about how two female Wisconsin Supreme Court justices reported that a third Justices David Prosser and Micheal Gableman bullied them.



Prosser has already admitted calling Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson a "bitch" and threatening to "destroy" her, but claimed he had good reason to do so.



This June, multiple witnesses also told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Prosser held Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in a headlock during deliberations.



TPM reports that Prosser Justice Michael Gableman has an explanation for that episode, too:



1) She started it. (By hitting Gableman)



2) She threw her head at his fist Bradley ran into Prosser's arm while he was defending himself.



Prosser Gableman also couldn't quite remember the year in which Justice Bradley supposedly hit him (thus totally starting it), although as far as I'm concerned, that's the least problematic aspect of his account of why he assaulted his colleague.



Anyhow, that's my latest update on The Supreme Court of Wisconsin.



via @tcita



UPDATE: I've revised the post to reflect the embarrassing fact that I confused Justice Gableman with Justice Prosser. Whoops, I'm not careful enough to keep track of which dude on the Wisconsin Supreme Court assaulted which female justice. So that's pretty embarrassing, and also unfathomably depressing. Thanks to Shaker BlueRidge for the heads up.