“David Prosser needs to be a little bit careful here,” UW- Madison law professor Walter Dickey said. “He might be admitting to a crime. Even if it’s not prosecutable, it undermines the legitimacy of the judiciary if you admit to behavior that amounts to a felony.”
Richard Jacobson, a private attorney and lecturer in legal ethics at the law school, said Prosser’s admission only shows he disagrees with rulings by the 4th District Court of Appeals and upheld by the Supreme Court that operating private political campaigns with public resources wasn’t a legitimate state duty.