Unless the Wisconsin Supreme Court is a subsidiary of the WWF, leaving this to the judicial commission is ludicrous. Any employer's workplace rules, including the Supreme Court's, become secondary when the violation of work rules happens to be a crime.
From stcroix's excellent diary and resulting comment thread( http://www.dailykos.com/...
), it seems the Court wants to keep this in-house, to be dealt with by the judicial commission. They don't get to do that.
If the Court, including the two woman justices involved in Prosser's most-publicized blowups, had treated this as a crime, rather than an unfortunate blemish on the reputation of the court, we would have seen booking photos by now, if not an actual perp walk.
If this concern for the Court's reputation is real, they must realize that public knowledge of one justice assaulting another with impunity damages the reputation of the Court as badly as justices being openly bought.
Dane County DA Ismael R. Ozanne (Democrat appointed by former Gov. Doyle) needs to step in, interview the victim, available witnesses and suspect, like he would if a high school janitor throttled a co-worker, and file the appropriate charges. Let's encourage him to do the right thing:
Dane County DA Ismael R. Ozanne
dancoda@da.wi.gov
208-266-4211
fax 608-267-2545
The judicial commission can look at this as much as they want, but their final action should be removal, after disbarment subsequent to a felony conviction.