Wisconsin leader pivots, says impeachment of state Supreme Court justice over redistricting unlikely

The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly who had threatened possible impeachment of a new liberal state Supreme Court justice over her views on redistricting now says such a move is “super unlikely.” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos originally threatened to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she did not recuse herself from the redistricting challenge, which is backed by Democrats seeking to throw out Republican-drawn electoral maps. After Protasiewicz refused to step down from the case, Vos raised the possibility of impeachment based on how she rules. When asked in an interview Wednesday if he would move to impeach Protasiewicz if she orders new maps to be drawn, Vos said, “I think it’s very unlikely.”

Wisconsin Republicans Retreat From Threats to Impeach Liberal Justice

Wisconsin Republicans signaled on Thursday that they were retreating from their threats to impeach a recently seated liberal State Supreme

2nd former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice advises Republican leader against impeachment

A second former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice asked to investigate taking the unprecedented step of impeaching a liberal justice has come out against it. Former Justice Jon Wilcox told The Associated Press on Wednesday that there was nothing to justify impeaching Justice Janet Protasiewicz, as some Republican lawmakers have floated. Republicans want her to recuse herself from a redistricting case, but she refused. Wilcox, along with former justices David Prosser and Patience Roggensack, were tapped by Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to look into possible impeachment. Prosser on Friday emailed Vos telling him that he was also against impeachment.

The right-wing recusal fairy tale

"If you read Justice Rebecca G. Bradley’s dissent to taking this case, she invokes 'Alice in Wonderland,' but it is her dissent in which you do indeed go 'through the looking glass.'"

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Murphy’s Law: The Legal Trickery of Robin Vos

Using every pseudo-legal tactic to fight fair maps and muzzle Justice Protasiewicz.

Wisconsin’s Trickle-Down Jerkonomics

Robin Vos, speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly, has a longstanding commitment to smashmouth politics. The state is worse off for it.

PlanScore: Wisconsin

PlanScore is a first-of-its-kind gerrymandering scoring service for new district plans, allowing users to upload maps and instantly receive projected data about their partisan consequences. You can also use historical data to discover how partisan advantage has influenced redistricting in Wisconsin.