Democracy in Wisconsin continues to be held hostage by a GOP-controlled legislature that is losing popular support and is willing to do almost anything to cling to power.
If Vos proceeds with his plan, Protasiewicz would be the first justice in Wisconsin to face impeachment over speaking out about important issues.
The speaker's second supposed ground for impeaching Protasiewicz is equally baseless. He and the GOP argue that the nearly $10 million her campaign received from the Democratic Party—after Republicans of state judicial elections—means that she cannot rule impartially on any challenge to the Republican-drawn maps.in 2010—at the request of and drafted by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce —stipulating that campaign contributions and independent expenditures are not grounds for recusal. WMC went on to become a leading dark money backer of former Republican Gov. Scott Walker and several right-wing justices.
Backed into a corner, Vos has resorted to other tactics to protect the GOP's rigged maps from the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court. He has appointed a secret star chamber of three former Supreme Court justices to advise him on ways to remove Protasiewicz. And last week Assembly Republicans
a bill to create an Iowa-style independent redistricting commission—which it has steadfastly opposed in the past—but not before changing the rules to give the GOP majority in the legislature the final say.
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