The Senate Judiciary Committee voted by a wide margin last week to confirm the nomination of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler to serve as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
And rightly so. There was no overstatement on the part of Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., when he hailed Butlerâ??s â??intelligence, diligence, humility and integrity.â?