Wisconsin Republican Assembly Leader Robin Vos is asking former state Supreme Court justices to examine the criteria for impeaching justices — it's the party's latest move against liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
The feud between GOP leaders in Wisconsin and Protasiewicz began when she joined the high court on Aug. 1 and flipped the majority liberal for the first time in 15 years. Most recently, Republicans have targeted Protasiewicz for her comments about redistricting and almost $10 million received from the state Democratic Party in donations.
Vos added that the three justices on the panel will not be paid and that their work should be complete in the"next few weeks." Wisconsin has a divided trifecta, which means Republicans hold control of the legislature while Democrats control the governor's office. The GOP holds a 64-35 majority in the Assembly and a 22-11 majority in the Senate, exactly a two-thirds majority.
At the same time, Republicans have called on Protasiewicz to recuse herself from a pair of Democratic-backed redistricting lawsuits that are challenging GOP-drawn maps, arguing that she cannot judge the cases fairly. She had called the current maps"unfair" and"rigged" during her campaign, according to the Associated Press.
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