Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice agrees to license suspension for alleged election-review misconduct

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Former Wisconsin Supreme Court docket justice agrees to license suspension for alleged election-review misconduct

By Debra Cassens Weiss

April 11, 2025, 11:00 am CDT

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court docket Justice Michael J. Gableman has agreed to the suspension of his regulation license to resolve an ethics grievance that stems from his investigation of the 2020 election for the Wisconsin State Meeting.

Gableman and the Wisconsin Workplace of Lawyer Regulation agreed a three-year suspension of Gableman’s regulation license is an acceptable sanction in a stipulation signed on April 7 and filed with the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket. The court docket should approve the suspension.

The stipulation acknowledges that Gableman can’t efficiently defend towards the misconduct allegations.

The Related Press, Reuters and the Washington Put up have protection. Regulation Ahead had filed a grievance towards Gableman, in accordance with a press launch.

Gableman’s $2.3 million election overview didn’t discover important fraud, in accordance with previous reporting by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The ethics grievance accused Gableman of failing to inform a legislative committee about cooperation by the cities of Madison and Inexperienced Bay in Wisconsin and falsely stating in court docket paperwork that the cities’ mayors had failed to look for depositions with out justification.

He was additionally accused of criticizing a decide as a substitute of responding to questions throughout a court docket listening to on a gaggle’s public-records request in Dane County, Wisconsin. He claimed that Choose Frank Remington “has deserted his position as a impartial Justice of the Peace” and later mentioned, “You wish to put me in jail, Choose Remington? I’m not gonna be railroaded.”

“With this deal,” mentioned Jeff Mandell, president and basic counsel of Regulation Ahead, “Gableman stipulates that he misled courts, lied in public conferences, and violated authorities transparency legal guidelines.”

Gableman served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket from 2008 to 2018. He filed the stipulation per week after a Democratic-backed candidate received election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket, giving the court docket a 4-3 liberal majority, the Washington Put up factors out.

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