Scott Walker Is The One With An Email Problem
Posted by Alan Colmes | August 23, 2015
August 23, 2015
Lou Dubose
Posted with permission from Newsweek
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This article appears in the September 2015 issue of The Washington Spectator.
On July 16, the Wisconsin Supreme Court shut down the second of two investigations that had resulted in guilty pleas of six Scott Walker appointees who had disregarded the line between civil servant and political operative.
“To be clear, this conclusion ends the John Doe investigation because the special prosecutor’s legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law,” read the opinion that eliminated a hurdle between Walker and the Republican presidential nomination.
Unique to Wisconsin law, a John Doe investigation allows a special prosecutor to seize documents and take depositions while protecting the identity of a targeted “John Doe.”
The four-justice Republican majority leaned heavily on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, holding that the investigation had trampled the First Amendment rights of political donors exercising free-speech rights by making political contributions (up to $1 million per individual).
The justices also declared the investigations a violation of Fourth Amendment privacy protections of the Milwaukee County staff, Walker’s campaign workers and nonprofit groups engaged in campaigns indirectly supporting Walker.
Now, as Walker’s presidential campaign gets under way, conservative think tanks and news outlets—the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, The Weekly Standard, et al.—are trying to characterize the investigations as a political witch hunt.
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