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“Today’s ruling is a victory for democracy that affirms what we’ve been arguing all along: Wisconsin’s Office of Special Counsel is a state agency and must follow Wisconsin’s public records retention laws," said Rachel Fried, an attorney with Democracy Forward, which represented American Oversight in the case along with Madison-based Pines Bach.įrost, in his ruling, said Gableman's office “throws a variety of arguments against the wall to try to avoid the Retention Law,” but ”they all fail." He said the public interest in preserving, requesting and reviewing records obtained during the investigation was “paramount.” Frost granted a temporary injunction against any deletion of records by the office and rejected the motion to dismiss, a request made nearly a year ago. Courts have repeatedly ruled against Gableman and his former office in those cases.ĭane County Circuit Judge Jacob Frost on Monday affirmed with his latest ruling that the office formerly led by Gableman, and any future version of it, is subject to Wisconsin's open records law. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos hired Gableman to lead the probe in 2021 under pressure from Trump and conservative Republicans in Wisconsin who were pushing for decertifying Biden's win.Įven though the office has been unstaffed for nearly a year, it continues to fight open records lawsuits. The lawsuit was one of several filed by liberal watchdog group American Oversight against former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and the office of special counsel that he led. (AP) - A Wisconsin judge on Monday declined to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to ensure that no records are deleted from a now-closed state office created to investigate former President Donald Trump's loss in 2020. (Kayla Wolf/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File) Kayla Wolf/AP The lawsuit was one of several filed by liberal watchdog group American Oversight against Gableman and the office of special counsel he led. A Wisconsin judge on Monday, June 5, 2023, declined to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to ensure that no records are deleted from a now-closed state office created to investigate former President Donald Trump's loss in 2020. Facebook Twitter Email FILE - Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman leaves the stand after testifying, June 23, 2022, at the Dane County Courthouse in Madison, Wis.
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