MADISON - A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who was appointed by Gov. Scott Walker last year and who is running for a full term has come under fire for things she wrote as a college student, including that abortion was a “holocaust of our children” and that AIDS victims deserved no sympathy.
Justice Rebecca Bradley’s 1992 opinion pieces, which were published in The Marquette Tribune when she was a student at Marquette University, a private Jesuit school, were brought to light this week by a liberal attack group trying to prevent her from winning a 10-year term on Wisconsin’s highest court. Bradley, who was appointed by the Republican Walker in October, is part of a five-justice conservative majority on the seven-person court.
The new light shed on Bradley’s student columns has led to a strong backlash from Wisconsin Democrats. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat and first openly gay member of the Senate, has called it “hate speech,” and other liberals have called on Bradley to resign.
