Judge allows Voces de la Frontera Action to join lawsuit against Gableman subpoenas

What an ass... a non-profit, a non-white non-profit.

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The lawsuit, originally brought on by Attorney General Josh Kaul, argues the subpoenas are broad, overreaching and beyond the scope of the counsel's investigation which is led by former state Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman.

"Justice Gableman's investigation is starting to look more like Keystone Cops than it is some kind of official legislative function," UWM Professor Emeritus Mordecai Lee said in an interview.

Republicans backing the investigation argue it is meant to help find flaws in the administration of the state's elections. But Lee says the subpoenas for groups like Voces appear to show there is no finite direction or limit to where Gableman wants the investigation to go, further bringing into question its legitimacy.

"When you want to investigate the administration of an election, then you're investigating governmental bodies," Lee said. "But otherwise, I can't quite see the legal reason to investigate a nonprofit if he's focusing on the administration of the election."

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https://www.cbs58.com/news/judge-allows-voces-de-la-frontera-action-to-join-lawsuit-against-gableman-subpoenas


Voces de la Frontera began as a newspaper in Austin, Texas founded in 1994. The newspaper, co-founded by Christine Neumann-Ortiz, was affiliated with the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, an organization advocating for the rights of workers in the multinational factories in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-created free trade zones close to the border on the Mexican side. The paper championed immigrant rights, the rights of maquiladora workers, and promoted solidarity between workers in the US, Mexico, and Canada. Voces de la Frontera’s name in Spanish means “Voices from the border” and is a reference to the voices of workers in the maquiladora industry organizing for safe and dignified conditions along the US-Mexico border.

In 1998, both Christine and the newspaper relocated to Wisconsin. While maintaining ties to the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, Voces de la Frontera reoriented it’s organizing efforts locally to address the other side of the coin to the free trade agreements: the increased forced migration of working people from Mexico and other parts of the world to the United States. Inspired by the workers’ in the maquiladora industry Christine and other local activists opened a Voces worker center in Milwaukee to create a space for immigrant workers to learn about their rights in the workplace and to promote collective action against workplace injustices and for larger government policy changes, such as passage of immigration reform.

https://vdlf.org/about-us/history/