Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice refuses to disclose names of others looking at impeachment

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One of three former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices asked to review possible impeachment of a current justice is refusing to tell a judge who else was looking into that question.

Prosser indicated during the hearing before Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington that three former justices met at least once.

None of the eight other living former justices, six of whom are conservatives, have said they are a part of the review. The most recently retired justice, conservative Patience Roggensack, hung up when contacted by The Associated Press to ask if she was on the panel.“The people that I had lunch with had the same view of what we might say and we would do it individually,” Prosser said. He said the group was not producing a formal report and Vos never told him he was creating a panel.

Prosser and Fernholz on Friday both asserted that the former justices were like any other constituent that a public official may meet with to gather advice. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said in court Friday that it appeared to him the group may be violating the open meetings law, calling it “astonishing.”But he said his investigation hasn’t gotten far, in part, because he doesn’t know who the other former justices working on the issue are.

 

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