In her single ten-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Justice Rebecca Bradley made more of an intellectual impact than many justices make in two or three times that length of service on the bench. As she declines to run again and finishes her tenure, Wisconsinites owe a deep debt of gratitude to the foremost champion of our constitutional rights and liberties on our state courts.

First appointed by Gov. Scott Walker in 2015 and elected to a full term in her own right after a hard-fought race in 2016, Bradley laid down an early marker for her judicial philosophy in the 2017 case Gabler v. Crime Victims Rights Board.

The state legislature had established an executive agency to protect the rights of crime victims in court proceedings, in itself a noble goal. But the agency was e

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