Evers attorney finds complaint insufficient to start process of removing Milwaukee County DA

A private attorney Tony Evers retained found the complaint filed seeking to have him remove Milwaukee County DA John Chisholm suffers from several flaws, “both formal and substantive,” that fail to meet the burden required for the guv to begin the process. A half-dozen Milwaukee County residents last month filed a complaint against Chisholm over the bail his office set for a man who was later accused of driving his SUV through the Waukesha Christmas parade, killing six and injuring dozens more. Attorney Matthew Fleming wrote the filing suffered from procedural issues and also failed to properly state charges that

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Split Supreme Court rejects Vos request to stay deposition on election review records

A split state Supreme Court rejected Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ last-minute request to shield him from providing a deposition in a lawsuit a liberal group filed seeking records from former Justice Michael Gableman’s review of the 2020 election. Writing for the majority, conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn called Vos’ request an “extraordinary petition we grant only in the rarest of cases.” He noted Vos, R-Rochester, failed to follow a court rule that first requires a supervisory writ to be filed with the court of appeals unless it is impractical to do so. Hagedorn wrote the GOP leader also failed to meet

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