Republicans are planning to impeach her, even though she won by 11%, just because!
Democrats are gearing up to fight the potential impeachment of liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz as Republicans weigh removing the liberal justice because they say she prejudged cases.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Tuesday announced it’s taking part in a $4 million campaign of television and digital ads and voter outreach urging Republicans not to impeach Protasiewicz.
The announcement comes after legislative Republicans said they may seek to remove Protasiewicz from office if she doesn’t recuse herself from two cases seeking to redraw the legislative boundaries in Wisconsin.
“The anti-democratic, unconstitutional threat to Janet Protasiewicz would constitute a political disaster for the Republican Party and for our system of government writ large,” Democratic Party of Wisconsin chair Ben Wikler said Tuesday evening. “When voters elect someone, politicians can’t overturn that election in order to stay in power.”
The potential Republican case against Protasiewicz, whose term began in August, would largely rely on rhetoric she used on the campaign trail, where she repeatedly called the current legislative maps “rigged” and expressed her wish to revisit them in the courts.
Wisconsin’s legislative maps give Republicans a supermajority in the Senate and close to one in the Assembly. Experts consider the state’s legislative maps among the most gerrymandered in the nation, though many say the state’s political geography — with Democrats clustered in Wisconsin’s biggest cities and Republicans spread throughout the state — also contributes to Republicans’ big legislative majority.
Days after Protasiewicz became a justice, liberals filed two lawsuits directly with the Wisconsin Supreme Court seeking new maps while alleging the current legislative boundaries violate the state Constitution.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court hasn’t accepted either case yet, but legislative Republicans have said in court filings in those lawsuits and elsewhere that Protasiewicz must recuse herself from the cases because she has all but pledged to rule in liberals’ favor.
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