(Wisconsin) Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has been quietly editing her own Wikipedia page

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Bice: Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has been quietly editing her own Wikipedia page

Last week, a person with the Twitter handle @arizonasunblock from Tampa, Florida, noticed that Bradley, who has been on the high court since 2015, appeared to make major changes to her Wikipedia biography earlier this year.

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"Liberal media has distorted my record since the beginning of my judicial career, and I refuse to let false accusations go unchecked," Bradley told the Journal Sentinel in an email. "On my wikipedia page, I added excerpts from actual opinions and removed dishonest information about my background."

What, then, was getting under her skin?

It's clear Bradley really, really disliked the section in her Wikipedia page dealing with a Republican challenge to the stay-at-home order issued by the administration of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in response the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to her Wikipedia page, in May 2020, Bradley "compared the state's stay-at-home orders to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II," a case known as Korematsu v. the United States.

"It's so unfair that my own words can be written down for posterity!"

Tell me she doesn't know that just because you've edited a Wikipedia page, that the previous version still exists, and is likely to draw attention and discussion because of your edits.

And is super easy to revert to the prior version too. It's basically two clicks to make it happen. And then have an admin protect the page to only allow established editors so randos can't do this with just an IP address again.

Just in case she happened to read my comment, I didn't want to use the word "revert" in order to avoid confusion.

I love too that she mentioned, "REAL OPINIONS" as if those are more valid than the exact words she said.

Her judicial opinions are the exact words she wrote, though.

Gosh dang LiBrUlS at it again!

Right!! They never got no treddfiddy neither for us!! Lol

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