Wisconsin GOP Assembly leader Robin Vos created a panel to investigate the criteria for impeachment against state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
Republican Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced Wednesday that he has created a panel to investigate impeachment criteria, as he considers taking that step against liberal state Supreme Court over comments she made during her winning campaign about redistricting and nearly $10 million in donations she received from the state Democratic Party.
But Gov. Tony Evers said he would veto the plan and advocates criticized it because it gives the Legislature the ability to draw maps if those created by the nonpartisan staff are rejected two times. Protasiewicz joined the court on Aug. 1, flipping majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from conservative to liberal for the first time in 15 years.
The state's judicial code prohibits justices and judicial candidates from making promises or commitments to ruling a certain way on any issue, and Protasiewicz adhered to that during her campaign. Earlier this year, the state commission that investigates complaints against judges dismissed ones it had received related to her comments on redistricting.
Dan Kelly, a former justice whom Protasiewicz defeated in April, told the AP that he was not on the panel either. Impeachment is permitted under the Wisconsin Constitution only for corrupt conduct in office or for the commission of a crime. It takes a simple majority in the Assembly to impeach and a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict.
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