Janet Protasiewicz speaks during her swearing-in as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Aug. 1 at the Capitol in Madison. MADISON, Wis. — Republican lawmakers in this political battleground state appear to be easing off an effort to impeach a new liberal state Supreme Court justice who in her campaign promoted abortion rights and condemned gerrymandering. said he would consider impeaching her if she did not remove herself from a case challenging the state’s legislative districts.
On Friday and through the weekend, the speaker remained quiet. On Monday, Vos issued a short written statement that said she should have recused herself but didn’t mention impeachment. On Tuesday,“To sum up my views, there should be no effort to impeach Justice Protasiewicz on anything we know now,” former justice David Prosser wrote in a Friday memo to Vos.Vos in recent days has not responded to questions about whether he is still considering impeachment.
State Sen. Duey Stroebel , one of the most conservative lawmakers in Wisconsin, told Milwaukee’s CBS affiliate in remarks reported Tuesday that heRepublicans hold 22 of the 33 seats in the state Senate — exactly the number needed to remove an official who has been impeached by the State Assembly. Losing a single Senate vote could be fatal to their efforts because all Democrats are expected to rally behind Protasiewicz.
Vos last month said he had formed a panel of former justices to advise him on impeachment but declined to name who was on it. The watchdog group American Oversight last month filed a lawsuit arguing the group of former justices was subject to the state’s open-meetings law and had to conduct its work in public.
In response to that lawsuit, Prosser released his memo and other documents. He also provided American Oversight with text messages and voice messages from former chief justice Patience Roggensack that suggest she has worked on the issue with Prosser. Those messages do not reveal her views on impeachment, but in one voice message she argued the group of former justices were not subject to the open-meetings law.
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