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Lisa
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Alex
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Christopher Allen Lynch
What's going on?
Lisa
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Judge Brad Schimmel
O.Com There's a race in Wisconsin on April 1 that you probably haven't heard about. So far, over $40 million has been spent on ad reservations, both aired already or for future reservations in this race. It's the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. So why does it matter? Why am I covering it on here, you might ask. Well, you look at a lot of these Supreme Courts in these states and you look at the issues before them. We're talking about redistricting, we're talking about election laws, we're talking about issues of crime, issues of importance, issues that impact the rest of the country, particularly when you look at a battleground state like Wisconsin. So that's why this race has gotten so much attention. That's why so much money is flowing into this race. This race will determine the ideological outcome of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And then you look at the liberal candidate in this race. I mean, it's supposed to be a nonpartisan, but you know, you know, we know where this lady stands. And she sentenced a repeat child predator who was found guilty on three counts of first degree sexual assault of a child under 13. This individual is facing 100 years behind bars. Guess how much she gave him. Four years in prison. She's received donations from George Soros. So you know where she stands on the issues. That's all you need to know, that George Soros supports this woman. So we're going to have Judge Brad Schimmel on the show. He is running against this woman. We're going to talk to him about why this race matters, why you should care. What does he believe? Where does he come down on these important issues? How does he view the Constitution? So stay tuned. About this Wisconsin Supreme Court race with the candidate, Judge Brad Schimmel. Well, Judge Schimmel, it's great to have you on the show. You've been busy. You're in a tough race right now, which has recently got received a lot of national attention. And you just had the debate, but we've seen over 40 million has been spent on ad reservations, both aired and also for future reservations. That's a big chunk of change for a Supreme Court race in this manner. Why do you think this has gotten so much attention?
Christopher Allen Lynch
Well, it started in 2023 with the race. Then where the liberal candidate was out on the campaign trail promising how she was going to rule on cases, and they enticed money in from billionaire liberal donors from across the country. She got $10 million transferred directly to her campaign. And then, of course, the outside money came in and independent ad buys as well. This year, my opponent actually got caught doing a zoom call with national billionaire liberal donors, promising that if she got on the court, they were going to turn two Republican congressional seats into Democrat congressional seats by ultimately the court redistricting those congressional districts and making it harder for the Republican to win. This has given national donors the notion that they can affect national politics. And of course, Wisconsin always affects national politics because we're the ultimate swing state. So the road to the White House goes here. Every presidential election, we get so many visits from presidential and vice presidential candidates and other surrogates because this matters. So they know that the Wisconsin supreme court can impose. Can affect the election integrity laws, how they're enforced, how they're applied, and so they see opportunity to take the Wisconsin Supreme Court majority. They saw that opportunity in 2023, they took the majority, and now they're fighting desperately to hang onto it.
Judge Brad Schimmel
Well, and also redistricting as well, which, you know, the liberal majority has been accused of activism before with that. So, you know, a lot of important issues, and in this race, specifically, this would. This comes down to the balance of power of the court, Correct?
Christopher Allen Lynch
Right. This is it. And if. If a conservative doesn't win, if I don't win April 1, the next chance for a conservative, for the conservatives to take back the majority, is not till 2028. So the Liberals will have had five years. They're running through a political agenda. Five years of them going through their political agenda is going to leave this state unrecognizable.
Judge Brad Schimmel
What do you think this race comes down to? You know, what would you put up as sort of the key reasons why you should be elect? Wisconsinites should care. Why maybe even people outside of the state should care.
Christopher Allen Lynch
It's a very simple, very traditional issue. Courts need to be objective. Courts. Everybody has political baggage. We all have a history. We all have opinions. Anybody who puts on the black robe to serve as a judge at any level must be able to make the commitment that they're going to set their political and personal views aside and decide the case objectively. We've lost on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And, you know, when you lose that. I was just. I was just talking with a. With a business alliance group, and I delivered this message to them. Would any of you make. Would any of you make a choice to hire more employees, to expand your operations, to move your operation to Wisconsin? If you don't have stability in the law, if you don't know that the court is going to follow the law as it's passed by the legislature and not change it on their own, because you can influence what the legislature does by writing to them, testifying to them, lobbying, getting them thrown out of office if they're not doing the right thing. Supreme Court justices, they serve a 10 year term in Wisconsin that's effectively lifetime. They almost never get thrown out after the first term. And now instead of 132 legislators in Wisconsin making the law, you have four justices on the Supreme Court doing it. No one's going to take a risk in Wisconsin to put people to work, which makes our state thrive. We will stagnate. I remember years ago when Illinois had a Republican governor and we had a Democrat governor, so you got to go back a ways. But there used to be a sign as you crossed into, into Illinois south of Kenosha on i94 that said, with the last business leaving Wisconsin, please turn the lights off. They were so Illinois was drawing so many businesses away from us because our climate was so unstable and so unfriendly to operating a business here. We flipped that. And now you could put that sign going the other way. You can flip that right back just as easily if we don't restore that objectivity and stability to the law in Wisconsin.
Judge Brad Schimmel
And we saw the court recently rule on issues like, you know, ballot drop boxes and reinstating, reinstating their use in 2024 after 2022 ban. Also, this 1849 statute on the books regarding abortion has gotten a lot of attention. What can you tell us about that? Why has that gotten so much attention? What do people need to know?
Christopher Allen Lynch
Well, they need to know that the court's playing politics with this. It was over five months ago that the oral arguments were concluded on this case. The court's dragging their feet to issue a decision because they want it to stay a live issue. That question will be decided by this court. It was heard this session. That means they'll issue a decision by the end of the term in June. By the time I take office on the court in August, that issue's done that law. I presume that the liberals are going to strike it down. But the question they raise is whether during Roe v. Wade, the Wisconsin legislature then put some other restrictions in place that would survive Roe v. Wade evaluation. You know, that you couldn't outright ban abortion. So the question raised in that case is whether those laws passed in 2015, for instance, now supersede and cancel out the 1849 law. That's the question in that case. But that will be resolved. And it's frankly dishonest of the liberals to keep making that an issue in this. I will never have a chance to address that law. It'll be done by the time I get there.
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Judge Brad Schimmel
Visit cprewards.com what can you tell us about Susan Crawford?
Christopher Allen Lynch
She was a highly partisan chief legal counsel for former Democrat Governor Jim Jim Doyle. Then she went on to private practice where she had represented some of the most far left groups in Wisconsin. I've been 35 years in public service. That means my only client for 35 years has been the people of Wisconsin. She was the lead attorney that attacked our voter ID law, called it draconian, compared it to a poll tax. She was the lead attorney that represented Planned Parenthood going after any abortion restrictions that the legislature put in place during the Roe v. Wade time. She's a far left extremist. Those groups are supporting her now.
Judge Brad Schimmel
Well, and she's also getting hit. I know you've brought this to light as well about how she sentenced a repeat child predator who was found guilty on three counts of first degree sexual assault of a child under 13 years. This individual was facing 100 years behind bars, but she only sentenced him to four years in prison. Yeah, walk us through that. And, and walk us through because we, we've seen Wisconsin also sort of become, you know, ground zero for a lot, you know, Jacob Blake and a lot of these, you know, soft on crime issues. So walk us through what we need to know about that.
Christopher Allen Lynch
Well, I want to be clear. That is one example of many that we found. It's routine for her to do these things. My opponent is a circuit court judge in Dane County, Wisconsin. That's where Madison is. It's far and away our most liberal county in the state. When she campaigned for office there, she was proud of her liberal track record and she campaigned on using alternatives to incarceration. Well, now on the now she's trying to run from that on the bench. This is one of many cases that we found where she has been extraordinarily light on child predators. In the case you've cited, Lisa, there was a man, an adult man, who repeatedly had sexual intercourse with a five year old girl. She let that man out on a signature bond, no cash at all posted. She permitted him to live across the street from an elementary school. While the case was pending, it went to trial. The little girl had to testify. The jury convicted the man. She still didn't revoke his bail. She still let him out on a $500 signature bond, still let him live across the street from that school as a convicted sex predator. Child Sex predator now. And ultimately she gave him a sentence that resulted in him serving less than two years after the sentencing date, before he was back in the community and now living within walking distance of a school again. This is one of many cases we found that demonstrate extraordinarily bad judgment on her part. He admitted in the debate on Wednesday night that she believed it was more important to focus on that offender and other offenders rehabilitative needs than to focus on the need to protect the community.
Judge Brad Schimmel
Which would make sense why someone like George Soros would want to fund her.
Christopher Allen Lynch
Yeah, to the tune of a million dollars before the end of last year. We don't know how much more you may have given already by now, but.
Judge Brad Schimmel
Then she's attacking you for Elon Musk involving himself financially in this race.
Christopher Allen Lynch
Right.
Judge Brad Schimmel
Take us through your time as a Waukesha county judge. What are you most proud of during that time? How would you define what kind of judge you've been?
Christopher Allen Lynch
You know, one of the, you know, the left accuses me of being this, being a hyper partisan extremist. I'll tell you this, in my courtroom, what I'm proud of is attorneys thank me after trials eat both sides for the objective hearing they got of their case. It is liberating to me when I go into my courtroom and there's no politics. Everything in our life now is political. Even cartoons that kids watch are political. You can't turn on a sitcom without having some politics in it. I sit down, I sit in my courtroom with my robe on, and there is no politics. You know, judges take a different oath than other public officials in Wisconsin. We, of course, swear to uphold and defend the Constitution, but we add one added piece that the others don't. We swear that we will administer justice without regard to persons. It doesn't mean we don't care about people. What it means is that it doesn't matter who's sitting in front of us, whether they're the most popular person in town, whether Republican or Democrat or whatever. It doesn't matter. What matters are the facts of the case and the law. That's all that's refreshing to me. That's what I'm most proud of in my work as a judge. And I stay objective until the very last argument is made, until I get all of my questions answered. And many times I'll start out the hearing after having read the briefs, believing that I was going to go one way in the case. But after I get my questions answered, I end up flipping it. My court clerk gets whiplash sometimes when she spins her head to look at me after I announce a decision she wasn't expecting because I listened to the litigants and I saw the path when I applied the law properly.
Judge Brad Schimmel
Would you describe yourself as an originalist?
Christopher Allen Lynch
Yes, absolutely. When looking at the Constitution, we can't treat that like it's some moving, changing target that changes as the public whims change. It has to have a foundational basis for our judicial system to work.
Judge Brad Schimmel
And then before we go, why do you think we've seen this increase of activism with judges? What's behind that?
Christopher Allen Lynch
Because liberals are frustrated that their ideas can't win at the ballot box for, you know, for elect for legislative offices. So they figured out, just like they figured out decades ago, if they take over the judicial, the journalism schools and the education schools, they'll reap the benefits years later. And they have. They've done the same thing now with the courts. They've recognized if they can pump money and all their effort into getting people on the courts, they don't need to win the legislature anymore. Because now the courts can make the rules the way the liberals want.
Judge Brad Schimmel
And where can people go to support you?
Christopher Allen Lynch
Schimmelforjustice.com S C H I M E L f o r justice.com and you can find all of the ads we've run. You can find our press releases that tell the truth about this race. I'm not allowed to ask for donations. That's prohibited for judicial candidates. But you can find out on our website how you can help our campaign, help us to win on April 1st.
Judge Brad Schimmel
Judge Schimmel, we appreciate your time, sir, and we hope that you win.
Christopher Allen Lynch
So thank you, Lisa. Thank you.
Judge Brad Schimmel
That was judge Brad Schimmel. Appreciate him for making the time to join the show. Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Tuesday and Thursday. But you can listen throughout the week until next time.
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Lisa
Mom, I need to lay low for a few days.
Alex
Lay low?
Christopher Allen Lynch
What's going on?
Lisa
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Podcast Summary: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Episode: The Truth with Lisa Boothe: The Importance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Host: Premiere Networks - Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
In this compelling episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton delve into the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race, featuring an in-depth interview with Judge Brad Schimmel. The discussion highlights the race's significance, the substantial financial investments involved, and the broader political implications for Wisconsin and the nation.
Timestamp: 03:00 - 07:40
The episode opens with Clay introducing the high-stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race slated for April 1. Over $40 million has already been funneled into advertising efforts, underscoring the race's prominence. Judge Brad Schimmel, the conservative candidate, shares insights into why this race has garnered such attention.
Key Points:
Timestamp: 07:40 - 22:56
Judge Schimmel elaborates on the necessity for an objective judiciary, free from political bias. He criticizes the current liberal majority, accusing them of judicial activism and undermining the rule of law. Schimmel emphasizes his commitment to upholding the Constitution and maintaining judicial impartiality.
Notable Quotes:
On Judicial Objectivity:
"Courts need to be objective. Anybody who puts on the black robe to serve as a judge must be able to make the commitment that they're going to set their political and personal views aside and decide the case objectively."
[07:40]
On Court Stability and Economic Impact:
"If you don't have stability in the law, if you don't know that the court is going to follow the law as it's passed by the legislature and not change it on their own, because you can influence what the legislature does by writing to them, testifying to them, lobbying, getting them thrown out of office if they're not doing the right thing."
[08:47]
On Liberal Judicial Trends:
"Liberals are frustrated that their ideas can't win at the ballot box for legislative offices. So they figured out... if they can pump money and all their effort into getting people on the courts, they don't need to win the legislature anymore."
[22:22]
Key Points:
Judicial Activism vs. Originalism:
Economic Implications:
Case Highlight – Lenient Sentencing:
Influence of Outside Money:
Timestamp: 05:21 - 07:40
Christopher Allen Lynch, speaking on behalf of Judge Schimmel, underscores Wisconsin's role as a swing state pivotal to national elections. Control over the Supreme Court can influence election laws and redistricting, affecting the balance of power in Congress and presidential races.
Notable Quotes:
On National Impact:
"Wisconsin always affects national politics because we're the ultimate swing state. So they know that the Wisconsin supreme court can impose... how they're going to use the court's power to affect the election integrity laws, how they're enforced, how they're applied."
[05:21]
On Long-Term Conservative Influence:
"If a conservative doesn't win, if I don't win April 1, the next chance for conservatives to take back the majority is not till 2028. So the Liberals will have five years to run through their political agenda."
[07:07]
Key Points:
Timestamp: 16:20 - 23:22
The conversation shifts to scrutinize the liberal candidate, Susan Crawford, highlighting her past as a partisan legal counsel and her controversial rulings that favor liberal agendas. Schimmel condemns her actions as detrimental to community safety and judicial integrity.
Notable Quotes:
On Susan Crawford's Background:
"She was a highly partisan chief legal counsel for former Democrat Governor Jim Doyle. Then she went on to private practice where she had represented some of the most far left groups in Wisconsin."
[16:26]
On Judicial Decisions:
"She permitted him to live across the street from an elementary school... resulted in him serving less than two years after the sentencing date, before he was back in the community and now living within walking distance of a school again."
[17:47]
On Media Influence:
"That's why someone like George Soros would want to fund her."
[19:29]
Key Points:
Partisan History: Crawford's history as a partisan legal counsel and her representation of far-left groups raise questions about her impartiality as a Supreme Court Justice.
Controversial Rulings: Her lenient sentencing in severe criminal cases undermines public safety and demonstrates a pattern of judicial activism.
External Funding: Significant financial support from liberal donors like George Soros indicates an attempt to influence the court's ideological balance.
Public Trust and Judicial Integrity: Schimmel emphasizes the importance of having judges who prioritize law and facts over personal or political agendas to maintain public trust in the judiciary.
Timestamp: 23:22 - End
As the episode wraps up, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton reiterate the importance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. They encourage listeners to support Judge Brad Schimmel through his campaign website, schimmelforjustice.com, emphasizing the need for a balanced and objective judiciary.
Key Points:
This episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show provides a thorough examination of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, highlighting its significance both within the state and nationally. Through the candid insights of Judge Brad Schimmel, listeners gain a deeper understanding of the stakes involved and the pressing need for judicial objectivity to safeguard democratic principles and community safety.
For more information and to support Judge Schimmel, visit: schimmelforjustice.com
Note: This summary excludes all advertisement segments and focuses solely on the substantive content of the episode.