When he ran for, and narrowly won, a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court , it was widely assumed that Brian Keith Hagedorn would comfortably join the court’s dominant conservative court majority. This, after all, was someone who was for years a loyal soldier in the conservative movement.

At Northwestern University where he received his J.D. degree in 2006, Hagedorn was president of the school’s chapter of the conservative Federalist Society. Following graduation and a stint at Foley & Lardner , in 2009 he was appointed as a law clerk to conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman . In 2010, Hagedorn was an Assistant Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice , under Republican Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen .

In December 2010 Hage

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