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Brad Schimel: “Unless judges, and particularly justices, can approach this…”

Featuring: Brad Schimel, Republican | Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, Waukesha County

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Tuesday Luncheon - Supreme Court Candidate Judge Brad Schimel

Published | Video Starts at 08:49

You can't. Your kids, cartoons, a lot of them have politics in them. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. There's one place that should be a politics free zone, that's the courtroom. And Unless judges, and particularly justices, can approach this job with a commitment to be objective, with a commitment to be impartial, with a commitment to approach their work with humility, respecting the roles of the other branches of government, unless you can do that as a judicial officer, you have no business putting on the robe. road. And that's the end of this story. For that. If not, our republic won't be one for long because it won't be about legislators that you elect in one of the 99 assembly districts in Wisconsin, for instance. (08:49–09:15)

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Asserts that judges must be objective, impartial, and humble to serve.

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