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Ex-Wisconsin Supreme Court justices blast GOP impeachment push
Ex-Wisconsin Supreme Court justices blast GOP impeachment pushTwo former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices — one appointed by a Democratic governor and one appointed by a Republican — rebuked a push by Republicans to consider impeaching a newly elected liberal justice on the state’s high court.
Former Supreme Court Justices Louis Butler and Janine Geske argued in a column published in the Wisconsin State Journal Thursday that a move by Republicans in the state Legislature to potentially hold impeachment proceedings on liberal Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz would “not only be inappropriate, but unconstitutional.”
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) and other Republicans in the Badger State are considering impeaching Protasiewicz after the state Supreme Court was asked to consider two redistricting cases over the state’s legislative maps.
Republicans point to her comments when she was running for a vacant seat on the state Supreme Court earlier this year in which she called the state’s maps “rigged” as well as her receiving nearly $10 million from the state Democratic Party.
Former Supreme Court Justices Louis Butler and Janine Geske argued in a column published in the Wisconsin State Journal Thursday that a move by Republicans in the state Legislature to potentially hold impeachment proceedings on liberal Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz would “not only be inappropriate, but unconstitutional.”
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) and other Republicans in the Badger State are considering impeaching Protasiewicz after the state Supreme Court was asked to consider two redistricting cases over the state’s legislative maps.
Republicans point to her comments when she was running for a vacant seat on the state Supreme Court earlier this year in which she called the state’s maps “rigged” as well as her receiving nearly $10 million from the state Democratic Party.
Butler, who was appointed by former Gov. Jim Doyle (D), and Geske, who was appointed to serve by former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R), argued that nothing that Protasiewicz has done has risen to the level in the state’s Constitution as an impeachable offense, noting that the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects a judicial candidate’s comments.
They also argued that previous rules and court decisions dictate that only Protasiewicz can decide on whether she needs to recuse herself to a case.
They also argued that previous rules and court decisions dictate that only Protasiewicz can decide on whether she needs to recuse herself to a case.
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