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Tuesday Night Jazz: Bill Laurance, "Denmark Hill"

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2024 Blue Wisconsin12/22/2015 9:50:02 pm PST

Good news. It sounds like the Scott Walker campaign spending case may not be dead yet:

Scott Walker Corruption Case Threatens to Implicate Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices

This summer, the Wisconsin Supreme Court took up the question of whether to stop the investigation into alleged coordination between Walker’s 2012 recall campaign and conservative outside groups that receive unlimited donations from undisclosed donors. The problem was that the election campaigns of two justices on the state’s top court had benefited significantly from spending by those same groups accused of illegal coordination with Walker. The special prosecutor overseeing the investigation, along with legal ethicists, asked the two justices with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves. But no justices stepped aside.

Although Schmitz was removed from the case, cutting him off from resources for an appeal, the court gave the other five prosecutors involved in the case the ability to intervene. On Friday, three Democratic district attorneys who had worked with Schmitz on the investigation chose to intervene in the case—signaling they want to go to the US Supreme Court.