Post by Logan on Jan 30, 2016 5:40:57 GMT -6
Attorney general asks federal court to stay out of John Doe
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel on Friday asked a federal judge to stay out of a matter related to the halted John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign, marking the first time his office has taken sides in court in the politically fraught legal battle.
Lawyers representing the John Doe investigators issued a statement Friday afternoon calling Schimel’s comments on the matter “false” and “defamatory.”
Schimel filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit that could affect a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision requiring investigators to turn over evidence they collected during the so-called John Doe I and II investigations into Walker’s Milwaukee County office and his 2012 recall campaign.
Schimel, a Republican elected in 2014, asked the court to deny the investigators’ motion to block the state Supreme Court’s decision out of respect for the separation of state and federal court authority. He noted the court determined investigators “obtained numerous documents as part of an unlawful state-law investigation, meaning that they have no right to possess such documents.”
Read more: host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/attorney-general-asks-federal-court-to-stay-out-of-john/article_4d9d7ad9-9ce6-5ade-937d-2ec438ac58b9.html
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel on Friday asked a federal judge to stay out of a matter related to the halted John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign, marking the first time his office has taken sides in court in the politically fraught legal battle.
Lawyers representing the John Doe investigators issued a statement Friday afternoon calling Schimel’s comments on the matter “false” and “defamatory.”
Schimel filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit that could affect a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision requiring investigators to turn over evidence they collected during the so-called John Doe I and II investigations into Walker’s Milwaukee County office and his 2012 recall campaign.
Schimel, a Republican elected in 2014, asked the court to deny the investigators’ motion to block the state Supreme Court’s decision out of respect for the separation of state and federal court authority. He noted the court determined investigators “obtained numerous documents as part of an unlawful state-law investigation, meaning that they have no right to possess such documents.”
Read more: host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/attorney-general-asks-federal-court-to-stay-out-of-john/article_4d9d7ad9-9ce6-5ade-937d-2ec438ac58b9.html