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Lawsuit against former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice dismissed after she turns over records

MADISON, Wis. — An open records lawsuit against former Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack was dismissed Tuesday after Roggensack turned over all records she had related to her work investigating possible impeachment of a sitting justice. None of the records Roggensack produced earlier this month shed any light on the impeachment advice she actually gave to Republican Assembly …

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MADISON, Wis. — A judge dismissed on Tuesday a liberal watchdog group’s claims that a panel researching the possible impeachment of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice violated the state’s open meeting laws. Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington wrote in his ruling that American Oversight filed its claims prematurely and should have given District Attorney Ismael Ozanne more time to …

Trump’s court whisperer had a state judicial strategy. Its full extent only became clear years later

In July 2015, Wisconsin's Supreme Court shielded Gov. If Leo's name sparks a note of recognition, it's usually because he was Donald Trump's judge whisperer and a leading figure in helping create the 6-3 conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2008, in a racially charged challenge to the state's first Black Supreme Court justice, Leo himself raised money …

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2nd former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice advises Republican leader against impeachment

MADISON, Wis. — A second conservative former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice asked to investigate taking the unprecedented step of impeaching a liberal justice on Wednesday came out against it. Former Justice Jon Wilcox told The Associated Press that there was nothing to justify impeaching Justice Janet Protasiewicz, as some Republican lawmakers have floated because of comments she made during the …

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice advises Republican leader against impeachment

MADISON, Wis. — There should be no effort to impeach a liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice based on what is known now, a former justice advised the Republican legislative leader who asked him to review the issue. “Impeachment is so serious, severe, and rare that it should not be considered unless the subject has committed a crime, or the subject …

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice refuses to disclose names of others looking at impeachment

MADISON, Wis. — One of three former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices asked to review possible impeachment of a current justice refused to tell a judge Friday who else was looking into that question. I think this is an absolutely frivolous case.” When asked directly by the judge if he would name who the other two former justices were, Prosser said, …

A member of the secret panel studying Wisconsin Supreme Court justice’s impeachment backed her rival

MADISON, Wis. — One of the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tapped to investigate impeaching newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz for taking Democratic Party money accepted donations from the state Republican Party when he was on the court. Speaker Robin Vos has floated impeachment because Protasiewicz accepted nearly $10 million from the Wisconsin Democratic Party and said during the campaign …