Liberal Wisconsin justice won't recuse herself from case on mobile voting van's legality

A liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice says she won't recuse herself from a case dealing with the legality of mobile voting sites



MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice said Thursday that she won't recuse herself from a case dealing with the legality of mobile voting sites in the state.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative law firm, filed a lawsuit in December 2022 on behalf of Racine County Republican Party Chairman Ken Brown alleging Racine city officials illegally used a voting van to collect absentee ballots around the city that year.

A Racine County judge ruled this past January that state law doesn't allow mobile voting sites. Racine City Clerk Tara McMenamin along with the Democratic National Committee asked the state Supreme Court in February to review the case without letting any lower appellate courts rule on it first. Justice Janet Protasiewicz's election win in 2023 gave liberals a 4-3 majority on the court, improving McMenamin and the Democrats' chances of winning a reversal.

The court has yet to decide whether to take the case. Brown filed a motion with the court asking Protasiewicz to recuse herself from the matter on March 1. Without Protasiewicz's involvement, the court would likely deadlock 3-3 along ideological lines on whether to take the case, forcing an appeal to go through the lower courts.

But Protasiewicz issued an order Thursday afternoon denying Brown's motion, saying that she can act impartially.

No one at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty immediately returned voicemail and email messages seeking comment.

I don't think Hagedorn can be trusted to rule for the law either.

Voting shouldn't be complicated.  You show up at your assigned voting spot, you vote once, you go home.  Then the crooks get involved.  Nobody likes crooks more than communists.  They see law-abiding as a negative, and think fair means not-fair.

I'm sure that cow loves putting one over on the lawful.

Protasiewicz was 34 when she married a 70-year-old retired Milwaukee judge Patrick Madden. Michael Madden said his former stepmother, Janet Protasiewicz, would routinely slap and push his father, Protasiewicz's then-husband. “The late Judge Madden was a highly regarded and well-respected Wisconsin jurist.Mar 16, 2023

I mean, mobile voting vans are about as racist as it comes. How can you prove that they properly give equal voting time to minorities? You can't. Therefore, voting should only be allowed at fixed voting locations.

Get the locations of the stops and you would most likely see they are designed to vacuum up Dem votes.

I think Apple makes something that would help you with that.
At minimum that should be a requirement anyway...a GPS tracker on every one of them.

Law abiding conservatives in this state are going to pay dearly for the loss of that supreme court seat.
Gary

Yes, her winning that seat will be very damaging.   She should recuse herself on any abortion issues, as her campaign focused heavily on her extreme support of abortion.   But, she won’t recuse herself.