Meet Brad Schimel: Reintroducing Brad Schimel and His Extreme Far-Right Record

MADISON, Wis. — With far-right politician Brad Schimel officially advancing to the April Wisconsin Supreme Court election, we’re here to help reintroduce Brad Schimel and his extreme partisan record to the Badger State.

Brad Schimel has spent his career catering to right-wing special interest groups at the expense of Wisconsin. As the state’s worst attorney general and a circuit court judge, Schimel tried to rip away Wisconsinites’ health care and reproductive freedom, sided with the far-right to suppress voters’ access to the ballot box, and opposed basic marriage equality—and that’s just skimming the surface of Schimel’s extreme partisan past.

Here’s what you need to know about far-right politician Brad Schimel:

• Brad Schimel is an anti-abortion extremist who supports Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban, which does not include exceptions for rape or incest. He continues to call the law “valid” and would vote to keep abortion restrictions in place on the Court. As attorney general, Schimel even committed to defending the 1849 ban and wasted more than $1 million taxpayer dollars trying to restrict abortion care in Wisconsin.
• Brad Schimel led a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act and rip away health care from over 260,000 Wisconsinites, calling the ACA a “train wreck.”
• As both attorney general and a circuit court judge, Brad Schimel has gleefully employed voter suppression tactics, siding with right-wing legal groups to declare ballot spoiling illegal and reopening an investigation into unproven voter fraud claims.
• Brad Schimel opposed granting basic marriage equality to LGBTQ+ and interracial couples—including voting against marriage equality himself.

“From backing near-total criminal abortion bans to suppressing Wisconsinites’ right to vote, Brad Schimel has spent over a decade doing the bidding of extreme right-wing special interest groups,” said Democratic Party of Wisconsin Deputy Communications Director Haley McCoy. “Not once in his career has Schimel cared about being fair or impartial, and there’s no question that with a record like his, Brad Schimel is unfit to serve on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”

Over the next few days, we’ll be reintroducing Brad Schimel and his disastrous record to Wisconsin. Learn more about Wisconsin’s Worst Attorney General at bradschimel.org.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.