If you have been reading her blog faithfully through the protests at the Wisconsin Capitol in the past three or four weeks you may have noticed a video segment, which, I think was shot by her husband. It shows a woman in black, roller skating on the walk leading to one entrance to the Capitol building, with blond hair (wig or natural not clear), which resembles Althouse at least generally. You see bizarre stuff like that (i.e., this imitation) all the time in Madison (by that I mean performance art, drumming for this or that protest cause, yada-yada-yada, etc.), but when it starts to turn into intimidation and efforts to curtail the free speech (and reporting) of someone you disagree with - then it starts to be a different animal. At some points in her commentary in the past few weeks (and probably farther back than that) Althouse exhorts us to stop being cowed, intimidated and silenced by the politically correct and apparently dominant liberal and progressive culture in places like Madison. How true that is!
I attended the University of Wisconsin Law School and regularly found myself weighing the utility of expressing my thoughts on a given topic, when I knew that a barrage of abusive and often personal attack was loaded and ready for me. That was the environment there in the early 1990’s - I do not know if it has changed.
I did not take courses taught by Professor Althouse, and don’t recall meeting her during my years in school there. Really regret that now. Until I started reading her commentary in the past 3 years, I would have been willing to bet a chunk of money that there were exactly 0.00 conservative-minded faculty at the law school (after Gordon Baldwin passed away.) As much of a surprise as it was - it has been extremely satisfying to see her skewer the protest movement with a handful of provocative questions and a surveillance camera view of exactly what the hell is going on.
This intimidation attempt has to be called out.
I wish I could have taken a class with her... But I was an undergrad when I went there. She did take multiple pictures of my ProtestWarrior signs though.