“Supreme Court won’t investigate leaks”

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined Monday to appoint a special master to investigate leaks from a long-running John Doe probe to a newspaper, leaving it to Attorney General Brad Schimel to look into it on his own.

The Republican attorney general last month asked the state’s high court to appoint the special master to investigate the leak of more than 1,300 pages of sealed documents to the Guardian U.S. The documents came from a probe of Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign that the state Supreme Court shut down in 2015.

The justices ruled 3-1 that it was for prosecutors — not the court — to decide whether to pursue a criminal investigation of the leaks.

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