The Wisconsin Democratic Party has launched a $4 million effort to pressure Republicans to back down from impeaching a new liberal state Supreme Court justice.
filed in her first week in office last month. The GOP-controlled Legislature asked for her to step aside from the cases.
Wikler said Tuesday that impeaching Protasiewicz would be “an absolute political, moral and constitutional disaster” that would “rewrite our system of government, to rip away what the founders intended, to rip away the principle of co-equal branches of government and replace it with an autocracy of the Legislature.”
Wisconsin Republican Party Chair Brian Schimming dismissed the effort, saying Democrats were trying to “divert attention away from the hyper-partisan and wildly inappropriate prejudgements of Janet Protasiewicz.”cemented the party’s majorities If the Assembly impeaches her, Protasiewicz would be barred from any duties as a justice until the Senate acted. That could effectively stop her from voting on redistricting without removing her from office and creating a vacancy that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers would fill.
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