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A conservative legal group has asked the Wisconsin Judicial Commission to investigate whether 29 circuit court judges engaged in misconduct by allegedly signing recall petitions against Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
The complaint by the Landmark Legal Foundation alleges the judges violated the state's Code of Judicial Conduct by "improperly engaging in partisan political activity."
I have 2 things to say here:
1) Exercising your right to vote, sign a petition, or otherwise engage in performing your duty as a citizen, is not engaging in partisanship political activity. If it were, then we need to throw every single Wisconsin judge in jail, since they typically run as Democrats and Republicans when campaigning.
2) I disagree with the author of the article when he calls this group out of Virginia a "Conservative" group. Since they advocate using a big government solution to have those judges "investigated" because of their personal political lean, you can't call them Conservative. Communists, maybe, but definitely not Conservative. :mrgreen:
Article is here.