The director of a conservative group targeted in the John Doe probe the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently shut down is saying Gov. Scott Walker will be asked to fire the elected district attorney who started the investigation and that lawyers who participated in it should be disbarred.
But a former state Supreme Court justice said such threats are “shocking and outrageous,” and she blamed members of the current court majority with fueling such talk by including overheated rhetoric and “very strange” citations from magazine, newspaper and Internet articles in the ruling announced Thursday….
The John Doe special prosecutor, Schmitz, wouldn’t discuss his timetable for deciding whether he would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider an appeal, or say when he planned to comply with the state court’s order to return confiscated property and destroy copies of records gathered in the investigation.
However, Schmitz issued a statement saying that some justices ignored his responses denying certain allegations. “There has been no fact-finding hearing conducted at any level establishing, for example, that search warrants were executed unprofessionally,” Schmitz said in the statement. “It is wrong for the court to accept as true the information alleged by some of the Unnamed Movants (plaintiffs and other interested parties) and their media outlets.
Schmitz also disputed the court’s reasoning in declaring the state campaign finance law unconstitutional, noting outside groups don’t need to disclose donors, leaving the public in the dark about who funds politicians.