There is now a lawsuit aimed at stopping an impeachment of Wisconsin’s newest Supreme Court Justice.
Madison attorney Tim Burns, who ran for the Supreme Court in 2018, yesterday filed a lawsuit that claims an impeachment would violate the constitutional rights of the people who voted for Janet Protasiewicz last spring. Republicans have been talking about impeaching Protasiewicz for the past few weeks. They want her to recuse herself from cases about Wisconsin’s political maps and abortion, both things she talked about during her campaign.
Burns’ lawsuit calls an impeachment move ‘Un-American,’ and an ‘anti-democratic powerplay,’ which he says is designed to ‘destroy judicial independence and the right of voters.’
