Dane Co. judge revokes election probe's attorneys' ability to practice in Wisconsin [View all]

Decision calls brief they filed a ‘manifestation of incompetency’


A Dane County judge revoked the ability of five out-of-state attorneys to represent in court the Assembly Office of Special Counsel — which has spent more than a year conducting a review of the 2020 presidential election.

The judge, Frank Remington, wrote a scathing opinion in which he systematically refuted a number of false claims the attorneys had made while representing the office and its leader, the recently fired Michael Gableman. Remington wrote that because the five attorneys signed their names to motions which applied “phony legal principles to invented facts” the lawyers no longer have the ability to work on the case pro hac vice — a legal principle which allows attorneys not licensed in a state to practice in conjunction with a local attorney.

Among the attorneys Remington removed from the case is James Bopp, an Indiana-based lawyer who has been influential in Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election and criminalize abortion.

The OSC attorneys had filed a motion seeking for Remington to recuse himself from the case because they claimed he favored American Oversight over them. Remington countered that the attorneys misrepresented or twisted the facts in order to try to show he was biased against Gableman’s review.

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/08/17/dane-co-judge-revokes-election-probes-attorneys-ability-to-practice-in-wisconsin/