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Fact: Susan Crawford Is An Experience Prosecutor, Private-Practice Attorney, And Judge

In Their 2018 Endorsement For Branch 1 Judge Of Dane County, The Wisconsin State Journal Editorial Board Praised Crawford’s “Nearly A Decade Of Criminal Justice Experience” From a WSJ Editorial: “Crawford has nearly a decade of criminal justice experience, and has handled hundreds of criminal cases as a former assistant attorney general. She’s argued cases in Dane County Circuit Court, before the Court of Appeals and Wisconsin Supreme Court. She worked on corrections policy and environmental enforcement for the state. [...] That doesn’t measure up to Crawford’s extensive and varied experience in civil and criminal law.” [Wisconsin State Journal Editorial, 5/28/18]

Crawford Prosecuted Criminal Cases As An Assistant Attorney General. From the Wisconsin Independent: “She worked as an assistant attorney general for the Wisconsin Department of Justice prosecuting criminal cases, chief legal counsel to Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, and for numerous state agencies. As a private attorney, Crawford represented Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in a 2014 case over how doctors administer pills used in medication abortions. She was also a partner in the liberal law firm Pines Bach in Madison.” [Wisconsin Independent, 1/8/25]

Crawford Prosecuted Medicaid Fraud Cases And Directly Supervised More Than 600 Felony Appeals In State And Federal Court. The Pioneer Press reported, “From 1997 to 2003 Crawford was an Assistant Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice where she represented the state in felony criminal appeals in the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals and prosecuted Medicaid fraud cases. She served as Director of the department’s criminal appeals unit from 2000 to 2003, directly supervising more than 20 attorneys and managing an annual unit caseload of more than 600 felony appeals in state and federal courts. Following graduation from law school, Crawford was admitted to practice in Iowa and served as Assistant Attorney General at the Iowa Department of Justice.” [The Pioneer Press, 8/24/09]

Fact: Susan Crawford Has Held Violent Criminals Accountable And Worked To Keep Criminals Behind Bars

As A Dane County Circuit Court Judge Since 2018, Judge Susan Crawford Has Handled Hundreds Of Cases Involving Violent Offenders And Has Sent Murderers To Prison Who Are Still Behind Bars:

• Dane County Case Number 2018CF002260 State of Wisconsin vs. McKayla R Tracy. Found guilty of felony murder.

• Dane County Case Number 2018CF002264 State of Wisconsin vs. Jacob A Johnson. Found guilty of felony murder.

[Wisconsin Circuit Court Access; Wisconsin Department of Corrections Offender Search] 

Susan Crawford Was An Attorney In 42 Federal Lawsuits During The Doyle Administration, Most Of Which Were Prisoner Habeas Corpus Lawsuits, Working To Keep Criminals Behind Bars. [PACER, Susan Crawford, accessed 4/18/24]

Fact: Susan Crawford Has Defended Access To Basic Rights And Freedoms, Including Reproductive Healthcare

As An Attorney, Crawford Represented Clients Who Challenged A 2013 Law Requiring Abortion Providers To Have Hospital Admitting Privileges. According to a press release from Crawford’s firm, Pines Bach, “Lester Pines and Susan Crawford, along with the lawyers from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, successfully challenged Wisconsin’s hastily enacted and restrictive law requiring physicians who provide abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.  On June 27, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an identical Texas law in its momentous decision in Whole Women’s Health et al. v. Hellerstedt et al.  The Supreme Court expressly relied on and cited the Wisconsin case and trial record in determining that the State of Texas had failed to demonstrate that the law had the purpose of protecting women’s health, but rather had the effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman’s choice to terminate a pregnancy.” [Pines Bach, 8/2/16]

As An Attorney, Crawford Represented Planned Parenthood After A State Law Blocked How Doctors Could Administer Abortion Care. According to Wisconsin Public Radio, “The law has been temporarily blocked since February 2013, when Planned Parenthood first filed suit to prevent Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and the state medical examining board from enforcing it. Planned Parenthood’s attorney Susan Crawford says the law places a burden on the 45 percent of women who choose a medical rather than a surgical abortion, because it requires a doctor to be present in the room with a woman when she ingests both of the pills necessary to induce the abortion.” [Wisconsin Public Radio, 4/24/14]

Fact: Susan Crawford Prosecuted Healthcare Fraud Cases And Protected Seniors In Nursing Homes

Crawford Was Involved As A Prosecutor In A Case Concerning Felony Identity Theft Against Nursing Home Residents By An Employee Of The Facility. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, “A former employee of an east side nursing home was charged Monday with four felony counts in the theft of residents’ identifications to obtain cable TV and phone services. Demetrius L. Mack, 35, formerly a licensed practical nurse at Heartland Health Care Center-Marina View, 1522 N. Prospect Ave., was arrested Monday morning. Mack is accused of stealing Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other forms of personal ID from two residents while employed there from August 1997 to August 1998, said Susan Crawford, an assistant state attorney general. The Department of Justice’s Medicaid Fraud Control unit investigated the case, Attorney General James Doyle said.” [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11/23/99]