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Scott Bauer reports Former Trump attorney in Wisconsin suspended from state judicial ethics panel:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended former President Donald Trump’s Wisconsin lawyer from a state judicial ethics panel a week after he was charged with a felony for his role in a 2020 fake electors scheme.
Liberal advocates have been calling for Jim Troupis to step down from the Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee, saying he is unsuitable due to his role advising the Republicans who attempted to cast Wisconsin’s electoral votes for Trump after he lost the 2020 election in the state to Democrat Joe Biden.
Troupis, a former judge, Kenneth Chesebro, another Trump attorney, and former Trump aide Mike Roman were all charged by state Attorney General Josh Kaul last week for their role in the fake electors plot.
Troupis did not return a voicemail or text message seeking comment Tuesday.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in its order, notified Troupis and the judicial advisory committee that he was “temporarily suspended” from serving on the panel effective immediately. The court did not give a reason for the suspension.
(In March 2023, the former conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court reappointed Troupis to a second term despite awareness and objections at the time of his role in the fraudulent electors’ scheme. There was no requirement in 2023 that he be reappointed, and as there were many other suitable candidates for appointment, he should not have been given a second term.)
Now, almost a year and a half later, it should not — and among the ethically-minded people has not been — merely the center-left demanding Troupis’s suspension. Pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against him, he is unsuited to serve actively on the advisory committee. Should he be convicted, he is unsuited to remain a member.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not state a reason for Troupis’s suspension, as they might have, but then again, the reason should be apparent.
A glass that builds and heals itself:
Troupis has been smack dab in the middle of every republican atrocity of the last 15 years. He got rewarded with a judgeship by Walker for his Act 10 and Gerrymandering machinations, until the good citizens of Dane County put an end to that at the next election. He is Gableman-level of crazy, but lots more competent, and totally ruthless.
He is now reaping what he has sown. About time!
It will be interesting to see if RoJo does any reaping w/respect to his enthusiastic insurrection-backing. He would certainly be in much deeper shit if Pence’s aid hadn’t told him quite forcefully to not get anywhere near him with the bogo-electors paperwork. RoJo should give that guy a big wet sloppy, kiss the next time he sees him for saving him from a grand jury visit, at least so far.
Yes, about time for Troupis. But that time has, at last, arrived. And Johnson, as you say, is undeservedly fortunate for the Pence staffer warning others away.