“I’m frankly amazed that I have to say don’t destroy records that are subject to an open records request or order that to occur,” the judge said on Wednesday.
The documents include language from a draft motion that would have extended Gableman’s partisan election investigation through the end of August instead of April. This week, the inquiry was extended yet again.
Public records request to the Wisconsin Assembly and Speaker Robin Vos seeking ethics waivers or waivers of conflict for individuals assisting in the Office of Special Counsel's investigation of the November 2020 election.
Public records request to the Wisconsin Assembly and Speaker Robin Vos seeking timesheets for individuals assisting in the Assembly's investigation of elections.
On April 12, American Oversight asked the court to deny Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Vos’ belated motion to keep private more than 20,000 public records that had been released to American Oversight days before.
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Vos released more than 20,000 pages of documents in response to American Oversight’s litigation for records related to the ongoing partisan election investigation.
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.
The first set of previously deleted records released by the Wisconsin Assembly to American Oversight in response to litigation seeking records of the Assembly's inquiry into the 2020 election.
The judge ruled that Speaker Robin Vos and the Assembly continue to “willfully violate a court order” and ordered the defendants to pay American Oversight’s legal fees, along with potential additional fines.