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WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS VOW TO LET JUSTICES THOMAS, ALITO, GORSUCH, AND
KAVANAUGH IMPEACH LIBERAL JUSTICE IF THEY LOSE PARTISAN GERRYMANDER  
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Liz Dye
October 13, 2023
Above the Law
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Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has decided that he won’t be
impeaching state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz after all.
He’s going to let the US Supreme Court do it instead!

Justice Protasiewicz was elected in April, trouncing conservative
former Justice Dan Kelly by eleven points. The race, which flipped
control of the state’s high court to liberal justices, attracted
upwards of $56 million
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spending, making it far and away the most expensive state judicial
election in history.

During the campaign, Protasiewicz called the state’s electoral maps
“rigged” — which seems a pretty fair descriptor of a system
which gives Republicans two-thirds of the legislative seats off of
about half the votes. And upon her investiture, Democrats promptly
filed legal challenges to Wisconsin’s maps, which the high court
upheld last year. With Protasiewicz on the bench, the court agreed to
rehear the cases, prompting a vitriolic response from her conservative
colleagues: 

“The probability of actual bias on Protasiewicz’s part likely
approaches 100 percent,” Justice Rebecca Bradley fulminated
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dissent.

Republican legislators demanded that Protasiewicz recuse herself from
the redistricting cases in light of her campaign statements, but the
justice demurred.

“Recusal decisions are controlled by the law,” she wrote
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Friday. “They are not a matter of personal preference. If precedent
requires it, I must recuse. But if precedent does not warrant recusal,
my oath binds me to participate.”

Speaker Vos set out to gin up support for an impeachment, enlisting
multiple state Supreme Court justices, including Protasiewicz’s
predecessor Patience Roggensack. But Vos got a big thumbs-down from at
least two of his would-be backers.

“To sum up my views, there should be no effort to impeach Justice
Protasiewicz on anything we know now,” former justice David
Prosser told
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in a letter released in response to an open records request from the
liberal watchdog group American Oversight. “Impeachment is so
serious, severe, and rare that it should not be considered unless the
subject has committed a crime, or the subject has committed
indisputable ‘corrupt conduct’ while ‘in office.'”

“I do not favor impeachment,” his former colleague Jon
Wilcox agreed
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Vos also faced pushback from the state’s upper house, where senators
had less appetite to punish a supposed act of naked partisanship with
another act of naked partisanship. So now he’d like you all to know
that he’s definitely not going home with his tail between his legs
— he’s _regrouping_.

“She said she’s going to follow the law. The most important aspect
of the law is following past precedent,” Vos insisted
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“If we see that the contributions that the Democratic Party made to
her expecting a result in that, that will certainly be something that
we have to keep on the table.”

And if that doesn’t work, he’ll get Justice Alito to intervene.

“If they decide to inject their own political bias inside the
process and not follow the law, we have the ability to go with the
U.S. Supreme Court and we also have the ability to hold her
accountable to the voters of Wisconsin,” he went on.

All of which could be dismissed as laughable cope if we hadn’t just
witnessed the U.S. Supreme Court’s six conservatives crack their
knuckles to overturn the trial panel’s findings of fact and
greenlight a massive gerrymander on Wednesday.

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WHERE SHE WRITES ABOUT LAW AND POLITICS AND APPEARS ON THE OPENING
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