Judge with the zingers.
Yeah.
All right.
Yes.
Thank you for joining us here.
Thank you.
And what are your thoughts about the lost time?
Like I said, I think one, it's been an honor to run this race.
And two, I'm thankful to everyone who helped me, my team,
everyone else has been phenomenal and fantastic.
And three, I'm just hopeful that my opponent, Justice
Elect Taylor, she just realizes what
a fantastic opportunity she has to show the state
that she can rise above and do a really good job there.
And I wish that for her.
I hope she does an excellent job.
And I hope that everyone in this state
is pleased with the decision that they've made.
What do you think contributed most to your loss?
I really don't know.
I mean, I think maybe we'll come up with numbers,
facts, and figures.
But I think for right now, I think
we just have to assess the fact that we don't run races
for judicial positions the way we should.
And I think that maybe from now on, we will start doing that.
And I think that you should be asking questions not
about political parties because we still
have that rollover from before.
And I think we need to start having races
where the sole question is judicial experience and merits.
That was a big, I mean, that was your hope.
That was my hope?
That you'd bring it back.
And maybe it still will happen.
So I'm not giving up on the hope at all.
I'm thinking it still will happen.
But did the results show that people, they
weren't the politics of it all?
No, I don't think so.
I think this was a race where we had incidents
that happened, tornadoes, other things that happened
that just weren't leading towards a good opportunity
for people in the state to get to know the candidates.
And I think maybe next race that they will ask for that?
No, no, no.
I think they will demand that.
And when they do that, you will see a better race, better
candidates, and you will see a better result.
What kind of decisions are you expecting out of the court
now that it's got such a heavy majority?
I'm hopeful that the decisions that come out
of the state Supreme Court are ones that go right down
the middle and are neutral, impartial, independent, and fair.
Are you going to be, so when is your term up on the appeal?
I have two more years on the Court of Appeals.
Two or three, two or three.
And then I get to run again.
And then I will have six more years.
So there's a lot of things to do, a lot of decisions to make,
and you know, a nice vacation to come up soon.
So I'm looking forward to all of that.
I did over here you saying to people, a door closes,
a window open, something to that effect.
What's the window?
What would you do?
I don't know what window it is yet.
So what I'm saying is just because this didn't happen,
and I am sad, and it is a disappointment.
I mean, we're human.
I think that there's still things that I can do,
and things that I can do for this state.
And maybe it'll be in a different capacity.
Maybe it'll be where I am on the Court of Appeals.
Maybe it was somewhere else.
I'm not running for any political office ever,
so you can mark that one down.
But that's not saying that there are other things
that I could not do for this state.
Or other things that I could do.
I mean, I am the editor of a book on criminal texts and procedures,
and I've written other things, so the world's there.
Do you think that Wisconsin should still continue to have spring
and fall elections, or should we all be lumped together?
You know, the clear answer to that
is that I don't think Wisconsin will change that ever.
I think people like their two elections.
I also think there probably are some problems.
If you got an election ballot in November
and it had the spring and November, it would be two, three pages.
People would have difficulty doing that.
But I just think in overall that the people in the state of Wisconsin
kind of are stubborn, and we like things the way they are,
and we don't like to change them.
So you can come up with lots of hypotheticals and alternates,
but I don't think it's going to change.
But then again, you know, I'm not a legislator,
so if they want to change it, not my call.
Would you run through the Supreme Court again?
That's not in my future.
No.
Although I'm supposed to write always leave doors open,
so I'll just say, hmm, interesting question.
Thank you so much for your time.
No problem.
Thank you so much.
I hope it worked.
It did.
Excellent.
Thank you very much.