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Susan Crawford: “There's not a lot of preparation or training to become a…”

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

Incoming Justice Susan Crawford sits down with TMJ4's Harm Venhuizen

Published July 31, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:50

So I have been holding trials and issuing decisions and just making sure that everything is in as good a shape as it can be for the incoming judge. Really, There's not a lot of preparation or training to become a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice. I've met with several of the justices just to talk about, you know, obviously the job and things that they did to try to prepare themselves. (00:50–00:57)

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Asserts that there is minimal preparation or training for new Wisconsin Supreme Court justices.

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“The next level is the court of appeals, which is the intermediate appellate court in Wisconsin.”
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“The Supreme Court is reviewing the decisions of the lower courts, including the circuit courts, to make sure they got the law right.”
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“Every case that the Wisconsin Supreme Court decides is going to be a precedent that all the lower court judges and lawyers around the state…”
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“I just saw some statistics recently on the number of unanimous decisions that the Wisconsin Supreme Court reached in the last year, and it…”
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“I first argued in front of the Wisconsin supreme court back in 1998.”
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“Wisconsin is one of those states where our justices and all of our judges actually are elected.”
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“Judicial elections or elections for the Wisconsin Court Supreme Supreme Court have been sharply contested right from the get go, right from…”
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