Legal regulatory authorities in Wisconsin on Tuesday filed a disciplinary complaint against a former state supreme court justice who criticized the Badger State’s 2020 election procedures.
Michael Gableman, a Republican, was hired by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, also a Republican, in 2021 to lead one of many investigations into the integrity of the 2020 presidential election and provide recommendations for how to make future elections better.
In the end, Gableman was unceremoniously sacked by Vos himself after calling for the elected official’s ouster in a primary challenge – and because his investigation, while sporting a hefty price tag, found “absolutely no evidence” of voter fraud and produced little of value.
“Here, I guess what we found out from this long and tortuous road is that at least for the first part of this investigation, there was no actual work being done,” then-Dane County judge Valerie Bailey–Rihn said during a hearing in July 2022. “The taxpayers are paying $11,000 for somebody to sit in a New Berlin library to learn about election law because they had no experience in election law.”