Supreme Court

Wisconsin court regulators have filed a complaint against former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman for false statements made during his 2020 election investigation.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit over whether the state’s top elections official should be able to keep her job.

Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday about whether Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe can keep her job amid a years-long Republican push to oust her.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Annette Ziegler says state courts are facing several challenges, including an ongoing lawyer shortage crisis and a backlog of cases left over from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wisconsin Supreme Court justices called Gov. Tony Evers’ budget veto extending school funding increases for 400 years “extreme” during oral arguments in a lawsuit claiming he violated the Wisconsin Constitution.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case that could have sweeping effects on state environmental regulators’ authority to force businesses to clean up PFAS pollution under the state’s spills law. 

One case focuses on the legality of a mobile-voting van, and the second looks at whether court records determining a voter is incompetent should be public record.

How the court rules in the case could set precedent for how Wisconsin employers handle investigations of employees moving forward. 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has given the state’s Green Party and the Wisconsin Elections Commission until 5 p.m. Friday to respond to a petition brought by the state’s Democratic Party.

With claims that the U.S. Supreme Court is facing a “crisis of ethics” due to conflicts of interest and recent rulings, President Joe Biden is calling for term limits and a binding code of ethics for justices. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has faced similar claims, but the rules for justices are different here.