Dane Co. Judge suggests Gableman's lack of professionalism may leave questions unanswered

Just days after former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was fired from his role investigating alleged misconduct during the 2020 presidential election after endorsing the primary opponent of the man who hired him, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Dane County judge suggested that a number of remaining questions surrounding the probe may go unanswered because Gableman was too unprofessional to be held to a higher standard.

The judge, Frank Remington, made the comments as a number of Democrats across Wisconsin call for an audit of the review — which included threats to jail the Democratic mayors of two of the state’s largest cities, numerous open records lawsuits and multiple findings of contempt of court.

In a hearing Tuesday morning, attorneys for American Oversight, a government watchdog organization that filed several lawsuits against Gableman and his Office of Special Counsel to force the release of documents related to the review, said there remain a number of gaps in the materials that have been released.

James Bopp, an attorney for the OSC, said that all documents have been released and therefore Remington’s finding of contempt against Gableman should be lifted.

“These overbroad statements that ‘everything was produced, we searched everything,’ it’s just almost too broad to be credible given what we know from other sources and given what we know about the Office of Special Counsel’s records procedures,” attorney Christa Westerberg said.

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/08/16/dane-co-judge-suggests-gablemans-lack-of-professionalism-may-leave-questions-unanswered/