Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has law license suspended for three years for fraudulently advancing Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election
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Good news is on the way:
In a 10-count complaint in November, Wisconsin’s Office of Lawyer Regulation alleged Gableman had filed false information with a judge, repeatedly engaged in dishonesty, unfairly disparaged a judge and an attorney, failed to perform competent legal work, did not follow the directions of his client, released confidential information and lied to the lawyer who investigated him. . . .
“Gableman hereby stipulates that he cannot successfully defend against the allegations of misconduct contained in the Complaint, and agrees that the allegations of the Complaint provide an adequate factual basis in the record for a determination of [ethics] violations as alleged in each of the ten counts of the Complaint,” Gableman, his attorney and an attorney for the state wrote in Monday’s joint filing.
An attorney for Gableman had no immediate comment on the filing.
After Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential race, Republicans who control the Wisconsin Assembly hired Gableman to review how the election was conducted in the swing state. Gableman falsely claimed the election was stolen, consulted with conspiracy theorists, kept shoddy records and unsuccessfully sought to jail mayors and local election officials who he contended weren’t cooperating with him. He publicly urged lawmakers to try to revoke the state’s 10 electoral votes, even as he privately acknowledged doing so was a “practical impossibility.”
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In litigation over his election review, Gableman was dishonest and left out important information that he should have reported to the courts, according to the Office of Lawyer Regulation complaint. In addition, he gave false statements when he testified before a legislative committee, according to the complaint.
Gableman improperly maintained records and didn’t appropriately respond to public records requests, according to the complaint and separate court rulings. When he was sued over his handling of records, he disparaged the judge overseeing the case and an attorney who sued him, according to the complaint.
The Kafkaesque/Orwellian essence of the present moment is reflected in the fact that the wild lies this guy at least temporarily incinerated his legal career to advance are something that every single elected Republican official in this country now has to support, usually explicitly, in order to remain politically acceptable in the eyes of the chief liar of all, Donald Trump.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
Remember when quoting people like Hannah Arendt in reference to Donald Trump and Trumpism was the height of shrill incivility?
Those were the days my friend.