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Retired Judges Ask For Higher Recusal Standards

Frederica Freyberg:

Now a quick look at another Wisconsin news development. In response to increased spending in the state’s judicial elections and concerns over recusal standards for Supreme Court justices, a group of 54 retired Wisconsin judges filed a petition this week seeking new disqualification rules for judges. The proposal to the state Supreme Court asks for higher conflict-of-interest standards for the state’s jurists. The petition comes seven years after the court decided judges didn’t need to recuse themselves from cases simply because of campaign contributions, regardless of the amount.