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Republicans should not pursue impeachment of a liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, concluded a conservative former justice whom Wisconsin Republicans tasked to look into the matter. “To sum up my views, there should be no effort to impeach Justice Protasiewicz on anything we know now,” David Prosser wrote in a letter dated Friday to state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican.
Prosser, in his letter, however, seemed to defend Protasiewicz at times, pointing out that she had also “repeatedly stated that she could not say how she would decide a case about the reapportionment maps' and that “she would not participate in a case in which the Democratic Party of Wisconsin was a party.” “These two statements reveal that Justice Protasiewicz is conscious of the Supreme Court’s ethical rules for justices and judges,” Prosser wrote.
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