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Jill Karofsky: “What you see when you look at those opinions from the last…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:42

We are asked to decide the most difficult questions of today. And I think when you look at our opinions, when you see the result of all of that work being done the right way, What you see when you look at those opinions from the last two years is you see far more opinions that end up 7, 0 or 6, 1 or 5, 2 than you do 4, 3. When you see, whether it be in a campaign or where have you, that Democrats are voting and cheering for the liberal justices, Republicans are voting and cheering for the conservative justices. (04:42–04:54)

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Asserts that recent court opinions are more often unanimous or near-unanimous than split.

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