In an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Attorney General Van Hollen is stated to have said “that eliminating partisanship from the judiciary is the best way to ensure that judges remain impartial.” So…in the Judiciary branch of the State government partisanship has no place? When Attorney General Van Hollen said that eliminating partisanship from the judiciary is the best way for judges to remain impartial, maybe he forgot that the attorney general is part of the judiciary.

Maybe he also forgot about his earlier chairmanship of the McCain Campaign in Wisconsin and his questionably “nonpartisan” challenge to thousands of voting records. A challenge against voter fraud that he had originally promised to fulfill to Wisconsin delegates at the Republican National Convention. Here is a man who is proven to be partisan in his actions as Attorney General and who tries to hide that partisanship when it is discovered, specifically with the voter fraud case.

If being non-partisan is the best way to remain impartial then it must be impossible for a member of the judiciary to be impartial, because Attorney General Van Hollen has shown how partial he really is.  

Van Hollen’s second act of legislation was within another hazy area of legislation, the issuing of permits to retired officers. This is an area of legislation that Wisconsin differs from in all but one state (Illinois), however, if this is to be changed then it should be changed with new legislation, rather than through another attempt to use a gray area of the law to legitimize his own political ideology, once more using himself as a precedent (and once more entering the spotlight). He also intentionally goaded others to follow, but no one felt comfortable enough to follow suite.