The Republican president of the Wisconsin Senate is calling on the Assembly to vote to impeach the state's nonpartisan top elections official.
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Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe’s actions “could rise to the level of corrupt conduct in office,” Senate President Chris Kapenga said in a letter urging Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to pursue impeachment.despite the state’s Democratic attorney general and the Legislature’s nonpartisan attorneys saying they did not have the authority to do so at that time.
“It is unprecedented for an appointee in the state of Wisconsin to refuse to obey the Senate through its advice and consent powers,” Kapenga said in a statement. “Impeachment is not taken lightly, but when we have lost trust in justice to be impartially carried out at all levels, it is time to act and put this embarrassment behind us.”on a vote to reappoint Wolfe.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul accused Republicans of attacking the state’s elections and asked a judge to rule that the Senate’s vote has no legal effect and that Wolfe remains in charge of the elections commission. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans areWolfe has been targeted by persistent lies about the 2020 election, and conspiracy theorists falsely claim she was part of a plot to tip the vote in favor of President Joe Biden.
The fight over who will run the battleground state’s elections commission has caused instability ahead of the 2024 presidential race for Wisconsin’s more than 1,800 local clerks who actually run elections., she accused them of trying to “willfully distort the truth.” As administrator of the elections commission, she has little power to do more than carry out commissioners’ decisions.
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