Lawsuit asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to block impeachment before Assembly acts
One of the attorneys who filed a lawsuit seeking to have the Wisconsin Supreme Court block the state Assembly from beginning impeachment proceedings against a justice says he sees the action as one of the Court’s “sacred duties.”
In the lawsuit filed Monday, the Court is asked to order that the Assembly can’t begin impeachment proceedings against a Court justice unless a majority of the court has ruled that the “constitutional standards for impeachment” have been met.
The lawsuit, filed by a former liberal candidate for Supreme Court justice and former Democratic Assembly candidate on behalf of two voters, seeks to have the court itself step in before Republicans can move to impeach new Justice Janet Protasiewicz over comments she made and donations she received during her campaign this spring.
Republicans have been threatening impeachment over Protasiewicz’s comments that the state’s legislative maps are “rigged” and the support her campaign received from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
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