Walker, embattled state Supreme Court justice, go way back

(AP) — The personal and political lives of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and an embattled state Supreme Court justice have been intertwined for decades, starting with their overlapping semesters at Marquette University, where the future justice penned anti-gay opinion pieces and threatened to resign from the student government over a multicultural course requirement.

Justice Rebecca Bradley's writings bashing gays, feminism, abortion and political correctness at Marquette University from the early 1990s resurfaced this week, in the midst of her run for a full 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

[...] his political opponents say there's no way the former Republican presidential candidate couldn't have known about Bradley's outspoken positions, given their connections at Marquette.

Walker and Bradley only overlapped at the private Jesuit school in Milwaukee for a year, a time when they coincidentally both had letters to the editor published in the student newspaper, an Associated Press review of records showed.

The future state Supreme Court justice served as a senator on Marquette's student government alongside Jim Villa, one of Walker's longest and most trusted advisers.

Villa and Bradley were on the student senate together at a heated meeting in 1991 where Bradley slammed down her nameplate and threatened to resign during a discussion of whether the university should add a multicultural course requirement, according to an article in the Marquette Tribune, the student newspaper.

Bradley didn't disclose any of the college writings in the application materials she submitted to Walker for the three judicial openings, even though the application forms asked for a list of academic activities, including extracurricular involvement.