Tuesday, September 15: Kenosha DA suspended, Crowley rolls out anti-corruption plan, Milwaukee’s primary election ballot glitch examined, SCOTUS rejects Trump’s vote-by-mail restrictions
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We have seen lawmakers try to hide how they spend taxpayer dollars on things that absolutely in no shape or form serve the public.”
– David Crowley, Democratic candidate for governor, rolling out his anti-corruption proposals Monday
“It should not be a vehicle to get rich by gaming the system. We see that running rampant in Washington right now, while Wisconsinites are facing higher costs on everything from gas to groceries to their health care,” Crowley said. (Photo by Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner)
Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis had his license to practice law suspended Monday. A memo issued by the state court system’s Office of Lawyer Regulation states that Solis’ suspension was for “willfully failing to cooperate with one or more OLR investigations into alleged misconduct.” Henry Redman reports.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley vowed Monday to pass a slate of measures to cut down on corruption in government with proposals he said would prevent elected and public officials from profiting from their positions. Baylor Spears covers Crowley’s announcement.
It took mere minutes for conspiracy theorists to seize on a Milwaukee election error after the August primary, when officials initially forgot to extract election results from five of the city’s nine absentee ballot tabulators. They lobbed baseless accusations that election officials had switched votes or otherwise tampered with the results. But audit logs from those five tabulators show no evidence of tampering experts tell Votebeat’s Alexander Shur.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections. The unsigned, one-paragraph order upheld a Massachusetts federal court’s injunction on a U.S. Postal Service rule until after Nov. 3. Jacob Fischler has the details.
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Xavier Solis (photo courtesy of Xavier Solis)
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