think a lot of people having a hard time imagining some of the things that are being said about ann walsh bradleyaying that the justice bradley initiated this confrontation. what about that? >> you know, i -- i think that's a case of blaming the victim. i think that way too often when someone is abusive toward another individual, particularly when a man is abusive toward a woman in the workplace, the instinct is to blame the victim. that's what's happening here, justice bradley's story came out, she was the victim of an act of violence. and go forth and justice prosser comes along and says, you know what, it's her fault. i think it's another case of blaming. >> first it went to the capital police, then it was referred to the sheriff's department. john nichols, where is this? is this taking a political twist in this investigation? >> i don't think so, ed. there's two investigations going on. one is being handled by the dane county sheriff's department. this operation has some terrific investigators, highly respected, not just in wisconsin, but nationally. they're on the case, doing the interviews

. >> just anne walsh bradley is accusing fellow justice david proctor of trying to choke her during a heated debate. proffer denies it. >> what justice bradley says is she asked justice david proffer to leave. he put her neck in a choke hold. >> jon: judges fighting each other. sound look a case for my new show "court, court." literally, a bench-clearing brawl happening in the midst of of an ideologically charged debate over collective bargaining rights. it's the biggest political fight in receipt wisconsin history but it's he said/she said. how do we ever know who is right? the altercation allegedly took place in front of their court colleagues. >> jon: oh, my god. thank god. eyewitnesses. and not just any eyewitnesses. the other supreme court justices pillars of the wisconsin legal establishment, the very people entrusted with the solid judicial duty of weighing fact and determining justice. >> and they, too, are divide over exactly what happened. ( laughter ) >> jon: the other justices were there and they're still-- let me guess, party lines. they're divided on party lines. these a