{"id":1585077,"date":"2022-08-02T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585077"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:48:55","slug":"judge-rules-wisconsin-2020-election-investigator-must-foot-163000-bill-in-legal-fees-over-public-records-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-wisconsin-2020-election-investigator-must-foot-163000-bill-in-legal-fees-over-public-records-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Wisconsin 2020 Election Investigator Must Foot $163,000 Bill in Legal Fees Over Public Records Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-rules-wisconsin-2020-election-investigator-must-foot-163000-bill-in-legal-fees-over-public-records-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585077&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The investigator hired by Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to probe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-2020-election\">2020 election<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a> was ordered by a federal judge on Monday to pay\u00a0$163,000 in fees to attorneys for the watchdog group American Oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington ordered that Wisconsin\u2019s\u00a0Office of Special Counsel, which is headed by former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, must foot the bill\u00a0in lawyers\u2019 fees as well as other costs to the watchdog group, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/another-judge-awards-taxpayer-funded-attorney-fees-in-wisconsin-election-review-open-records-case\/article_c914384f-d66c-517e-8521-2d12f0d30d91.html\">Madison.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>American Oversight has filed a string of lawsuits over the past year against\u00a0Vos,\u00a0Gableman, and the state assembly, seeking records tied to the\u00a0Office of Special Counsel\u2019s\u00a0review of the presidential election in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit that \u201cuses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy\u201d but it appears to largely target\u00a0former President Donald Trump and other\u00a0Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/another-judge-awards-taxpayer-funded-attorney-fees-in-wisconsin-election-review-open-records-case\/article_c914384f-d66c-517e-8521-2d12f0d30d91.html\">reports,\u00a0<\/a>the latest fees will be paid by Wisconsin taxpayers and will add to the cost of the investigation, which is now over\u00a0$1 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office responsible for Wisconsin\u2019s partisan election review has deleted records that don\u2019t suit the false election-fraud narrative. Access to these records is essential for accountability. We\u2019re fighting to stop any more records from being destroyed,\u201d the watchdog group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weareoversight\/status\/1554200547351224320?s=20&#038;t=3sp-rUNK2PIPuL0pyej5DQ\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has contacted Wisconsin\u2019s\u00a0Office of Special Counsel for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Remington\u2019s ruling came just months after he\u00a0found that Gableman and Vos\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/judge-rules-against-vos-gableman-open-records-lawsuit\">violated state public records laws<\/a>\u00a0by denying or delaying access to documents that had been requested by the watchdog group.<\/p>\n<p> Ongoing Lawsuits <\/p>\n<p>The ruling also comes after\u00a0a separate one by Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn last week in a different lawsuit bought by the watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey-Rihn\u00a0found Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had violated\u00a0the state\u2019s transparency laws by failing to properly respond to open records requests related to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investigator hired by Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to probe the 2020 election in Wisconsin was ordered by a federal judge on Monday to pay\u00a0$163,000 in fees to attorneys for the watchdog group American Oversight. 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