January 31, 2019 By Rick Moran
The investigations into the potential misconduct of the prosecutor in the Wisconsin "John Doe" case has died with no one being held accountable.
Legal Insurrection's Bill Jacobson called them "some of the worst political abuses of prosecutorial powers ever to take place." And yet, the prosecutor who ordered the armed, pre-dawn raids on ordinary citizens' homes, the gag orders, threatening of witnesses, and other shocking abuses will go unpunished.
The "crime" was the "illegal collusion" of some Wisconsin conservative groups with the campaign of Governor Scott Walker. Eventually, the state Supreme Court ruled that the entire case was based on unconstitutional attempts to stymie free speech and free association.
Read Bill's posts on the subject, which detail a frightening ordeal for many innocent people.
A report by former Wisconsin attorney general Brad Schimel found that the Government Accountability Board, the driving force behind the prosecutions, was politically motivated..............
The Founders feared this kind of unchecked power and sought to limit the judiciary's ability to make mischief. What they didn't count on was the human factor – of prosecutors, unaccountable and unelected, using their office and the law for partisan political purposes.............Read more
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