Wisconsin GOP Assembly Speaker ‘Violated the Public Records Law,’ Must Disclose Information About Partisan 2020 Election Review: Judge – By Adam Klasfeld (Law and Crime) / July 16, 2022
A Wisconsin judge found that one of the state’s top Republican lawmakers “violated the public records law” and must produce documents about a partisan review of the 2020 election.
Roughly a year ago, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) appointed former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to act as a special counsel to review the 2020 results. Vos has indulged former President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won in Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes. Efforts to overturn those results failed in state and federal court. Even after an audit found no widespread fraud, Vos and Gableman moved ahead with a GOP-backed partisan review. Both Vos and Gableman have been scolded by state courts repeatedly for failing to turn over records on it.
Earlier this year in March, Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn found Vos in contempt for failing to produce records seeking information about that investigation.
On Friday, Bailey-Rihn ruled against Vos again in a lawsuit filed against him by the watchdog group American Oversight.
