Senate Should Reject Nomination of Louis Butler to U.S. District Court

摘要

When a later case was argued in 2005, State v. Knapp, presented identical constitutional language, Justice Butler was the deciding vote in the 4-to-3 decision to abandon the longstanding Wisconsin precedent to adhere to the U.S. Supreme Court, so that evidence essential to a murder trial would be excluded from court. * Engaged in partisan campaigning for Barack Obama soon after the voters of Wisconsin removed Butler from the Supreme Court On Sept. 25, 2008, shortly after stepping down as a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Butler engaged in overtly partisan campaigning by speaking at a fundraiser for Barack Obama, saying that the country needed Obama in the White House because of the opportunity to appoint justices to the U.S. Supreme Court and "other federal judges."