On Friday, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos fired Michael Gableman, the former Supreme Court justice Vos had appointed last year to lead the Office of Special Counsel, investigating Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election.
After spending more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars to investigate election conspiracy theories over the last 14 months, threatening to jail the mayors of Madison and Green Bay for refusing to comply with his order that they give secret testimony, and being held in contempt by Wisconsin courts for failing to produce public records related to the investigation, Gableman had, according to one of the judges who sanctioned him, found no evidence of fraud.
One week before he was fired, Gableman appeared at a rally with former President Donald Trump to support GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels. Trump, who has repeatedly attacked Vos for refusing to go along with Trump’s demand that he accomplish the legally impossible task of decertifying Wisconsin’s electoral vote for President Joe Biden, announced at the rally that Gableman was supporting Vos’ primary challenger. Gableman even recorded a robocall to voters in Vos’ district in which he declared, “everything that my office and I have been able to do, to expose all the corruption that took place, has been in spite of Robin and not because of him.”
On election night, after Vos won the primary by 260 votes, he called Gableman “an embarrassment to the state.”
Vos told reporters on Tuesday that he...
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