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Susan Crawford: “[Brad Schimmel] failed to do the job of the Attorney…”

Featuring: Susan Crawford, Judge for Branch 1 of the Dane County Circuit Court | Wisconsin

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Published February 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:44

Thank you for having me. Again, it's been a busy day for you, to say the very least. You began this morning with a press conference in Green Bay. Why the … [Brad Schimmel] failed to do the job of the Attorney general, which is to protect the safety of the community. … untested sexual assault kits. They need to be tested for DNA. He got two or he got nine of them tested in two years out of a backlog of over 6,000. (00:44–00:53)

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Asserts that Brad Schimmel failed to protect community safety as attorney general.

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Susan Crawford

“When [Brad Schimmel] was attorney general, there was a backlog of 6,000 untested sexual assault kits.”
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“[Brad Schimmel] got nine of [the sexual assault kits] tested in two years out of a backlog of over 6,000.”
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“My opponent, I think, is the most extreme candidate to ever run for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
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“[Brad Schimmel] has a history as a partisan politician with a record of really working very hard to take rights away from people back when…”
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“[Brad Schimmel] tried to take away people's health insurance, take away reproductive rights of women.”
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“[Brad Schimmel] has a history of giving very light sentences to people who have committed serious acts of domestic violence.”
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“[Brad Schimmel] made a plea deal with the attorney in a case involving a man who had thousands of files of child pornography.”
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“The guy's attorney was giving Brad Schimmel thousands of dollars of campaign contributions at the same time that Brad Schimmel said, I'll…”
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“Each of those files, each of those images counts as a count of child pornography.”
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“Two cases in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, this term involving rights of women to obtain abortions.”
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“The Supreme Court plays a really important role in protecting our rights, and in some cases, plays an important role as a check and balance…”
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“The Supreme Court is a backstop if the legislature tries to take constitutional rights away from people.”
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“Unfortunately, I think what we're seeing at the national level, certainly with the United States Supreme Court is a real abdication of that…”
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“We saw that with the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe versus Wade. 50 years of constitutional protections that women could count on tossed…”
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“They got enough hardcore right wing conservatives on the Supreme Court who were willing to throw 50 years of constitutional protections out…”
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