Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser is alleging in a court filing that an investigation against him by the state’s Judicial Commission, regarding a physical altercation with another justice, violates the separation of powers and the court’s confidentiality.
The Wisconsin State Journal reports:
Prosser, the subject of an ethics complaint filed in March with the Supreme Court, said in his response to the complaint Monday that the commission “may not investigate or prosecute protected speech, advocacy and etiquette of Wisconsin Supreme Court justices when they are deliberating in confidential closed conferences.”
The three alleged ethics violations stem from a June 13 incident in which Prosser acknowledges putting his hands around the neck of Justice Ann Walsh Bradley “to protect himself” and a February 2010 incident in which he admits calling Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson “a total bitch.”
