An Obama administration official said today President Barack Obama will renominate Louis Butler as a federal judge in Wisconsinâ??s western district. His nomination had been turned back in the U.S. Senate on Christmas Eve. Butler was a justice on the state Supreme Court from 2004 to 2008. He was defeated for reelection by current Justice Michael Gableman, and is now a jurist in residence and a lecturer at UW-Madison Law School.
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