- Former Chief Justice Persistence Roggensack of the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket has been ordered to supply information associated to her advisement of Republican Meeting Speaker Robin Vos.
- Vos sought perception from Roggensack and two different former justices on the potential impeachment of liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
- “Wisconsin has had and continues to have a protracted and storied custom on the accountability of open authorities,” Dane County Circuit Decide Frank Remington, who gave Roggensack 30 days to obtain the required info, mentioned.
A Wisconsin choose on Friday ordered the previous chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket to supply information associated to her work advising the Republican Meeting speaker on whether or not to question a present justice.
Former Chief Justice Persistence Roggensack was one in every of three former Supreme Court docket justices requested by Meeting Speaker Robin Vos to provide him recommendation on pursuing impeachment. Vos has floated impeachment in opposition to liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz based mostly on how she guidelines on a pending redistricting lawsuit Democrats hope will lead to new legislative electoral maps.
The liberal watchdog group American Oversight filed a lawsuit searching for information from Vos and the three former justices. Vos and two of the previous justices, David Prosser and Jon Wilcox, turned over information. That included an e mail from Prosser to Vos advising in opposition to impeachment. Vos turned over greater than 21,000 pages of paperwork final week, American Oversight legal professional Ben Sparks mentioned at a Friday listening to.
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Wilcox advised The Related Press he didn’t produce a report, however verbally advised Vos impeachment was not warranted.
The one former justice who didn’t produce any information was Roggensack. She has not mentioned what her recommendation was to Vos and he has refused to say what it was.
When American Oversight tried to serve Roggensack with a subpoena at her dwelling, an aged man who answered the door mentioned he didn’t know anybody by that title and closed the door, Sparks mentioned in court docket whereas quoting a press release from the method server.
On Friday, Dane County Circuit Decide Frank Remington issued an order giving Roggensack 30 days to supply any information she has.
“Wisconsin has had and continues to have a protracted and storied custom on the accountability of open authorities,” Remington mentioned.
Former Chief Justice Persistence Roggensack of the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket, middle, is photographed on the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, Feb. 20, 2013. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal through AP)
All the former justices have a accountability to supply information they keep associated to their work “whether or not they understood it or not in accepting the invitation to opine on the query introduced,” he mentioned.
Roggensack’s legal professional, Robert Shumaker, didn’t return a cellphone message or e mail searching for remark.
Vos initially mentioned he was contemplating impeachment if Protasiewicz didn’t recuse herself from the redistricting case. She didn’t recuse. Vos didn’t transfer to question her, following the recommendation in opposition to impeachment from the previous justices. However now he’s suggesting he might try to impeach her if she doesn’t rule in favor of upholding the present Republican-drawn maps.
The Wisconsin Structure reserves impeachment for “corrupt conduct in workplace, or for crimes and misdemeanors.”
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Republicans have argued Protasiewicz has pre-judged the case based mostly on feedback she made through the marketing campaign calling the present maps “unfair” and “rigged.”
Protasiewicz, in her determination to not recuse from the case, mentioned that whereas stating her opinion in regards to the maps, she by no means made a promise or pledge about how she would rule on the case.
The redistricting lawsuit, filed the day after Protasiewicz joined the court docket in August and flipped majority management to 4-3 for liberals, asks that every one 132 state lawmakers be up for election subsequent 12 months in newly drawn districts.
The legislative electoral maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011 cemented the social gathering’s majorities, which now stand at 64-35 within the Meeting and a 22-11 supermajority within the Senate. Republicans adopted maps final 12 months that have been much like the prevailing ones.
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Wisconsin’s Meeting districts rank among the many most gerrymandered nationally, with Republicans routinely profitable much more seats than can be anticipated based mostly on their common share of the vote, in keeping with an AP evaluation.
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