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Alice Herman in Madison, Wisconsin

Republicans threaten to impeach newly elected Wisconsin supreme court judge

Janet Protasiewicz at the bench.
Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin supreme court in April, after the most expensive state judicial election in US history. Photograph: Morry Gash/AP

Republicans in Wisconsin are threatening to remove from office the newly elected state supreme court justice Janet Protasiewicz if she refuses to recuse herself from cases involving gerrymandering. The effort comes on the heels of Republicans in the state senate advancing a move to oust the state’s top elections official.

The efforts to remove Protasiewicz and the Wisconsin elections commission administrator, Meagan Wolfe, from office have been decried by Democrats and government watchdog groups as undemocratic and could affect the administration of elections in 2024.

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