Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 84. Sunrise is 6:48 and sunset is 6:42, for 11 hours, 55 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 28 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1940, Germany, Japan and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact.
These many years later, attorney discipline draws closer for Michael Gableman, former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, former special counsel hired at the insistence of Robin Vos, and perpetual conspiracy theorist:
Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s license to practice law in Wisconsin should be suspended for three years, a third-party referee wrote, agreeing with the state Office of Lawyer Regulation’s allegations that he violated standards for professional conduct during his much-maligned review of the 2020 presidential election.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will have the final say in the matter, a Court spokesperson said Friday.
The suspension recommendation marks the conclusion of Gableman’s effort to fight attempts to hold him accountable for his conduct during the election investigation. The OLR found that while working on behalf of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to look into alleged wrongdoing during the election, Gableman lied to a Waukesha County judge about conversations he had with other attorneys, lied to an Assembly committee, deliberately violated state open records laws, used his agreement with Vos to pursue his own political interests, violated his duty of confidentiality to his client and lied in an affidavit to the OLR as it was investigating him.
Gableman’s investigation ultimately cost the state more than $2.3 million without finding any evidence to confirm President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud during the 2020 election.
See Henry Redman, Three-year suspension recommended for Gableman’s law license, Wisconsin Examiner, September 26, 2025.
Should never have been a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, should never have been hired as a special counsel, and should have been disciplined sooner for his unethical performance as special counsel.
And yet, and yet, at least discipline draws closer.
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