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As he is skewered by the conservative politicians and pundits who helped elect him, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn insists he remains true to his campaign promise: to read the law as plainly written and interpret it as the writers intended. Those legal principles, known as “textualism” and “originalism,” are hallmarks of the conservative judicial approach — one that Hagedorn ostensibly shares with three others on the state’s highest court: Chief Jus...