Walz said Procaccini exhibited \u201csteadiness, humility and an exceptional legal mind\u201d during that difficult period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is no one more prepared for the rigors and challenges that come with this important position,\u201d Walz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A justice who conjured up the rationale to make let Governors Klink and Flanagan play Mussolini and Evita for almost two years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cWith the departure of Justice Gildea, Governor Walz had an opportunity to select a pragmatic voice and ensure Minnesotans have a diverse set of views on the Minnesota Supreme Court,\u201d said House Minority leader Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring. \u201cInstead, he picked the chief architect of the 2020 lockdowns and mandates that destroyed businesses and kept our kids out of the classroom with zero judicial experience to serve on the state\u2019s highest court.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The last Republican appointee, G. Barry Anderson, will hit mandatory retirement age right in the middle of Klink\/Flanagan’s current term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sweet dreams, all who care about limited government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the upcoming retirement of Lori Gildea, Governor Klink yesterday promoted Justice Natalie Hudson to the Chief Justice slot. Much more troublingly, he appointed Karl Procaccini to replace Hudson as associate justice. And to my mind, Procaccini has all the makings of the very worst kind of judge (emphasis added by me): Procaccini, 40, took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85823,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85822\/revisions\/85823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}