{"id":3254,"date":"2023-06-06T01:36:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2023-06-06T02:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T02:13:26","slug":"judge-rules-that-special-council-records-are-public-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules that Special Council Records are Public Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/05\/judge-rules-that-special-council-records-are-public-records\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-rules-that-special-council-records-are-public-records\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/05\/judge-rules-that-special-council-records-are-public-records\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-rules-that-special-council-records-are-public-records<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I agree. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/wisconsin-judge-dont-delete-records-190344861.html\">Now do John Doe.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A Wisconsin judge on Monday declined to dismiss a\u00a0<a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-wisconsin-lawsuits-supreme-court-2e14f03d75d3f5269dde1182eb2bf214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:lawsuit seeking;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"36\">lawsuit seeking<\/a>\u00a0to ensure that no records are deleted from a now-closed state office created to investigate former President Donald Trump\u2019s loss in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was one of\u00a0<a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-biden-lawsuits-government-and-politics-84282407c7cf1e66d6fa19c562af43cf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:several filed;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"37\">several filed<\/a>\u00a0by liberal watchdog group American Oversight against former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and the office of special counsel that he led. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos hired Gableman to lead the probe in 2021 under pressure from Trump and conservative Republicans in Wisconsin who were pushing for decertifying Biden\u2019s win.<\/p>\n<p>Vos put the investigation on hold in April 2022 and then\u00a0<a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-wisconsin-donald-trump-c81e1806bc41ab4e8fec91b8f72ee904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:fired Gableman;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"38\">fired Gableman<\/a>\u00a0in August 2022 after he turned up no evidence to back Trump\u2019s false claims that the election had been stolen from him. Vos fired Gableman just days after Vos won his primary over an opponent endorsed by Gableman and Trump. Vos called Gableman an \u201cembarrassment\u201d to himself and the state.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the office has been unstaffed for nearly a year, it continues to fight open records lawsuits. Courts have repeatedly ruled against Gableman and his former office in those cases.<\/p>\n<p>Dane County Circuit Judge Jacob Frost on Monday affirmed with his latest ruling that the office formerly led by Gableman, and any future version of it, is subject to Wisconsin\u2019s open records law. Frost granted a temporary injunction against any deletion of records by the office and rejected the motion to dismiss, a request made nearly a year ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/05\/judge-rules-that-special-council-records-are-public-records\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=judge-rules-that-special-council-records-are-public-records I agree. Now do John Doe. MADISON, Wis. (AP)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}