Walker and Supreme Court justice have long known each other

(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 overlapping semesters at Marquette University, where the future justice penned anti-gay writings and threatened to resign from 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, as she is running for a full 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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 at a heated student senate 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 a student newspaper article.

Scot Ross, director of One Wisconsin Now, the liberal group that brought to light Bradley's college writings, said he thinks Villa must have told Walker about Bradley's political past.

The application forms asked for academic activities, including extracurricular involvement, and she listed her time as a Marquette University student senator and as editor of the student newspaper at Divine Savior Holy Angels High School.