In response to Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel claiming the Court’s female majority is “driven by their emotions,” DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy released the following statement: 

“Elon Musk-backed extremist Brad Schimel just gave Wisconsin voters more proof he has no business being elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court this April. In addition to supporting an abortion ban and delaying the state’s rape kit testing as attorney general, Schimel believes that the Court’s female majority is simply ‘driven by their emotions.’ ‘Objectively’ speaking, Wisconsinites deserve justices like Susan Crawford who will stand up for their rights and against the billionaire interests Schimel seeks to serve.” 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bice: Brad Schimel said liberal justices, all women, were ‘driven by their emotions’ at abortion hearing

By Daniel Bice 

• Let’s also agree that this is what Schimel said on Nov. 12 during a radio show when asked about the previous day’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court over the legality of a state law adopted in 1849 banning most abortions. He focused his attention on the court’s four-member liberal majority — all women.

• “The other thing that I noted, there were times that when that camera went on several of the liberal justices, they were on the brink of losing it. You could see it in their eyes, and you could hear it in the tone of their voice,” he told conservative talker Meg Ellefson on WSAU-AM (550) and its sister stations in Wausau and Stevens Point. “They are being driven by their emotions. A Supreme Court justice had better be able to set their personal opinions and their emotions aside and rule on the law objectively. This is — we don’t have that objectivity on this court.”

• In a joint statement, the court majority said that everyone gets a fair shot when they appear in front of the state Supreme Court, no matter who they are. What matters, they said, is the law.

• “Unfortunately, Brad Schimel is showing he has an antiquated and distorted view of women,” the four justices continued. “By suggesting that women get too emotional and are unfit to serve as judges and justices, he turns back decades of progress for women.”

• They said these “petty and personal attacks” don’t belong on the court or in the current campaign. For reasons such as these, the four justices said they have endorsed Crawford over Schimel.

• “It’s plainly clear that one of the justices, at least, was not able to stay objective. She had lost control of her emotions,” Schimel said after a roundtable talk at the GOP’s Hispanic center in Milwaukee. “Men do that, too, but she could not stay objective. In that case, she was literally yelling at an attorney.”

• And which justice was that? Schimel clarified, “The one that was yelling at the attorney was Justice Karofsky. She was plainly yelling.”

• A review of a Wisconsin Eye video of the court hearing shows all seven justices participated in the adversarial proceeding on Nov. 11. Karofsky made several forceful arguments, especially when she said upholding the 1849 ban would mean “signing the death warrants” of women and children. But she didn’t appear to be yelling or screaming.

• Just imagine the atmosphere if Schimel wins and ends up serving with three of the four liberals.

• Crawford spokesman Derrick Honeyman said: “Brad Schimel’s disgusting insults are just part of a pattern of disturbing behavior and extremism that has no place in our state, and certainly not on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”