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Jill Karofsky: “I see my role as doing the role of a justice of the Supreme…”

Featuring: Jill Karofsky, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

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Wisconsin's chief justice talks about her new role

Published | Video Starts at 02:04

Divisiveness. And I'm not gonna do that. Do you see your role as being political as well, especially when you make comments like that about the president? I see my role as doing the role of a justice of the Supreme Court, which is to give my attention to the cases that come before us, to look at the facts and to apply the law faithfully, to follow the rule of law. She was part of the court's first 43 liberal majority in the highly anticipated decision to strike down the state's 1849 abortion ban law, concluding the state's legislature had effectively replaced the ban decades earlier. (02:04–02:20)

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Asserts that her role as a justice is to focus on cases, apply the law faithfully, and follow the rule of law.

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