https://www.weeklystandard.com/artic...er_992185.html
This is a story that received much less attention than it deserved, IMO.
Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court halted an investigation by Democratic prosecutor John Chisholm against conservative activists and allies of Gov. Scott Walker. The investigations involved a series of pre-dawn SWAT raids on the homes of activists. The ostensible object of the raids was information regarding violations of state campaign finance law.
In one raid, police barged in to the home of a woman before she had a chance to get dressed, and watched her get dressed no doubt with high-lumen SWAT flashlights trained on her. That woman was Cindy Archer, architect of Act 10, a Wisconsin law that reformed public sector unionism.
The wife of prosecutor Chisholm is a teacher and union shop steward. (Shop steward is elected to represent workers in a given shop--in her case she probably represented all the teachers in her particular school).
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]“Chisholm’s wife was a teachers’ union shop steward who was distraught over Act 10’s union reforms,” reported National Review’s David French. “[A former prosecutor] said Chisholm ‘felt it was his personal duty’ to stop them”—legal authority be damned.
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The court put the kibosh on it last week. Again from the Stephen Hayes (weekly standard) piece:
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According to the Wisconsin supreme court’s ruling halting the investigation...the special prosecutor also had seized wholly irrelevant information, such as retirement income statements, personal financial account information, personal letters, and family photos.” Further, “this conclusion ends the John Doe investigation because the special prosecutor’s legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law.” That bit about the investigation not being founded in “reason” is a remarkable statement coming from a panel of judges. It’s legalese for shouting “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” at the prosecutor.
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