American Oversight filed a brief in opposition to allowing the lawyers — whom the lower court previously removed from the public records case because of misconduct — to represent the unstaffed Office of Special Counsel in the court of appeals.
In a separate fuling, the judge purged OSC’s contempt, finding that there were apparently no more records to produce thanks to the office’s record-keeping practices.
Following a tense hearing last week, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Frank Remington ordered OSC to submit to the court proof that it has complied with a previous court order to release records from its partisan election investigation.
Attorney Michael Gableman, who heads the office overseeing the partisan investigation of Wisconsin’s 2020 election, angrily refused to answer any questions.
A Wisconsin court has ordered the state Assembly’s election investigation to stop deleting records. Meanwhile, new details have emerged about congressional leaders’ initial response to the Jan. 6 attack.
A Dane County Circuit Court judge ordered the Assembly’s Office of Special Counsel, which is overseeing the partisan investigation of the 2020 election, “not to delete or destroy any record” that could be responsive to American Oversight’s public records requests.
In a recent letter, the Wisconsin Assembly’s office conducting its partisan election review admitted that it “routinely deletes” public records, maintaining — incorrectly — that it is not subject to the state’s public records retention law.
Last week, the Wisconsin Assembly’s Office of Special Counsel (OSC) released records — including previously unseen contract agreements — related to the ongoing partisan review of the 2020 election.
Records from the Wisconsin Assembly’s Office of Special Counsel relating to the investigation of the 2020 election, released to American Oversight following an order from the Dane County Circuit Court on March 8, 2022.
