“A former Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate is asking the state’s highest court to block Republican lawmakers from launching impeachment proceedings against a justice whose election in April flipped the court to liberal control, setting the stage for new electoral maps that could boost the number of legislative seats held by Democrats,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
“Madison attorney Tim Burns, who ran for a seat on the court in 2018, filed a lawsuit Monday against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos arguing an impeachment of newly seated Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz would violate the constitutional rights of voters who supported her during the spring election.
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