{"id":2020388,"date":"2023-09-02T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-gop-threaten-impeachment-if-new-state-justice-remains-on-redistricting-case\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:53:43","slug":"wisconsin-gop-threaten-impeachment-if-new-state-justice-remains-on-redistricting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-gop-threaten-impeachment-if-new-state-justice-remains-on-redistricting-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin GOP warns of impeachment if new justice stays on redistricting case."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fwisconsin-gop-threaten-impeachment-if-new-state-justice-remains-on-redistricting-case%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=2020388&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--><h2>Republicans\u2062 Call\u2063 for Recusal or Impeachment of Newly Elected Liberal Justice in Wisconsin<\/h2>\n<p>Republicans in\u200d the Wisconsin\u200d state legislature are urging Justice Janet Protasiewicz, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-gop-threaten-impeachment-if-new-state-justice-remains-on-redistricting-case\/\" title=\"Wisconsin GOP warns of impeachment if new justice stays on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/redistricting-battles-heat-up-as-democrats-play-gerrymander-hardball-and-the-house-hangs-in-the-balance\/\" title=\"Redistricting Battles Heat Up as Democrats Play Gerrymander Hardball and the House Hangs in the Balance\">redistricting case<\/a>.&#8221;>newly elected liberal justice<\/a> \u2064on the state\u2064 Supreme Court, to recuse herself from a\u200b redistricting case. \u2062They \u2062have even hinted \u200bat the possibility of impeachment if she fails to do so.<\/p>\n<p>During her campaign,\u2063 Justice Protasiewicz made\u200c strong statements \u2064about the unfairness\u200d and rigging of Wisconsin&#8217;s \u200bstate \u2062maps. She firmly believed that the \u2062state \u2062Supreme Court should \u200dtake action to \u200baddress \u2064this issue.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 15 \u200cyears, Republicans held a majority on the court. Democrats in Wisconsin saw Justice Protasiewicz&#8217;s election as an opportunity to ensure fair drawing \u200dof the state&#8217;s maps, which have been \u2062widely criticized as one of the \u200bmost gerrymandered\u2062 in the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, Republicans in the \u200bstate legislature argue\u200c that Justice Protasiewicz&#8217;s previous comments on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-in-key-battlegrounds-are-refusing-to-debate-republican-opponents\/\" title=\"Democrats In Key Battlegrounds Are Refusing To Debate Republican Opponents\">campaign trail make<\/a> it impossible for her to impartially judge the redistricting case. They insist that she \u2062must recuse \u2064herself from the \u200bproceedings, and if she refuses, they may consider impeachment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The idea that we&#8217;re going\u200b to immediately start an impeachment process is \u200bprobably too radical,&#8221; said Speaker of the Wisconsin state House Robin \u2063Vos (R) in an \u2062interview with a local radio \u2062station. &#8220;I want to look and see, does she recuse herself on cases where \u2063she is prejudged?\u2062 That, to me, \u2064is something that is\u200c at the\u2063 oath of office and what she\u2063 said she was going to \u2062do to uphold the\u200b Constitution. That, to me, is a serious offense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If\u2062 impeachment proceedings were to take place\u2062 in the House, \u200dJustice Protasiewicz \u200dwould be unable to vote or hear cases until the Senate acts. If the Senate were to convict her and remove her from office, a replacement would be \u200bchosen by\u2063 Democratic\u200b Gov. Tony Evers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> \u2062to read more \u2062from The \u2062Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in Wisconsin&#8217;s state legislature are urging a recently elected liberal justice on the Supreme Court to step aside from a redistricting case. Failure to do so may result in impeachment. During her campaign, Justice Janet Protasiewicz, who won a highly anticipated election, criticized Wisconsin&#8217;s &#8220;rigged&#8221; state maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2020389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}