{"id":1299,"date":"2023-03-16T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T13:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:04:28","slug":"will-responds-to-false-and-unfair-attacks-from-scowis-candidate-janet-protasiewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"WILL responds to false and unfair attacks from SCOWIS candidate Janet Protasiewicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-responds-to-false-and-unfair-attacks-from-scowis-candidate-janet-protasiewicz\/\">https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-responds-to-false-and-unfair-attacks-from-scowis-candidate-janet-protasiewicz\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_4 et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty takes cases in defense of the rule of law, individual liberty, and constitutional government. The recent television ad from Janet Protasiewicz is false and unfairly questions the motives of our organization. The false accusations it raises have been repeatedly demonstrated to be incorrect so this ad cannot even be defended as a honest mistake. The ad should be taken off the air and Ms. Protosiewicz should apologize.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are the facts:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WILL was formed in 2011 and briefly had a Litigation Advisory Board of outside lawyers to help us decide what cases (or type of cases) to bring.<\/li>\n<li>Dan Kelly briefly served as a member of the LAB several years prior to his time at the SCOWIS. Membership was uncompensated (although lunch may have been provided at the only two meetings that the LAB ever had).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Those two meetings took place in September 2011 and August 2012. These were the only two meetings of the LAB. We determined it was not necessary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>While the group was not formally terminated, Dan Kelly did ask to be formally removed from it prior to his joining the Court. So, not only did the LAB become defunct after 2012, Dan Kelly formally disassociated himself from the defunct group prior to joining the Court.<\/li>\n<li>Neither the LAB nor Dan Kelly had any role in WILL taking on any of these six cases mentioned in the ad. The cases were never discussed with him.<\/li>\n<li>These issues have been publicly vetted before. All of them could have been discovered by a simple e-mail or phone call. Ms. Protasiewicz should take down the ad and issue a public apology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, members of our board and employees of WILL are free to support candidates of any political persuasion just like any citizen of Wisconsin. Judges are not required to recuse themselves because one of the lawyers before them made a campaign contribution. See SCR 60.04(7).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_4 et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_team_member et_pb_team_member_0 clearfix  et_pb_text_align_center et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Rick-Photo.jpeg\" alt=\"Rick Esenberg\" class=\"wp-image-11260\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\">\n<h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Rick Esenberg<\/h4>\n<p class=\"et_pb_member_position\">President and General Counsel<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>rick@will-law.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"et_pb_member_social_links\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickesenberg\" class=\"et_pb_font_icon et_pb_twitter_icon\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_team_member et_pb_team_member_1 clearfix  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Team-Pat-Garrett.jpg\" alt=\"Pat Garrett\" class=\"wp-image-26743\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\">\n<h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Pat Garrett<\/h4>\n<p class=\"et_pb_member_position\">Communications Director <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pat@will-law.org<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-responds-to-false-and-unfair-attacks-from-scowis-candidate-janet-protasiewicz\/\">WILL responds to false and unfair attacks from SCOWIS candidate Janet Protasiewicz<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\">Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-responds-to-false-and-unfair-attacks-from-scowis-candidate-janet-protasiewicz\/ The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty takes cases&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}