From last week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race:<\/p>\n
As the first news outlets began calling\u00a0the Wisconsin Supreme Court election<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the liberal candidate\u00a0Susan Crawford<\/a><\/span>, her opponent called her \u2014 to concede.<\/p>\n
Minutes later Tuesday night, the conservative-backed Brad Schimel took the stage at his watch party to acknowledge the loss. Angry yells broke out. One woman began to chant about his opponent: \u201cCheater.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schimel didn\u2019t hesitate. \u201cNo,\u201d he responded. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to accept the results.\u201d Later, he returned to the stage with his classic rock cover band to jam on his bass. [AP<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Schimel is a classy dude when it comes to the basics of democracy. While the Wisconsin Republican Party has conducted itself extremely poorly over the last decade or so, there are still Republicans who know how this is supposed to go.<\/p>\n
One of those Republicans who’ve been less than gracious was Michael Gableman, a lawyer and former judge and occasional subject<\/a> of this blog. He seems to received a dose of comeuppance:<\/p>\n
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who led a\u00a0widely derided review<\/a>\u00a0of the 2020 presidential election,\u00a0 searching for evidence for baseless accusations of fraud, will have his law license suspended for three years, according to a stipulated agreement between him and the state Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR).<\/p>\n
Law Forward, the progressive voting rights focused firm, filed a grievance against Gableman with the OLR in 2023. The OLR filed a\u00a0complaint<\/a>\u00a0against Gableman in November that alleged, among other counts, that he had failed to \u201cprovide competent representation\u201d and to \u201cabstain from all offensive personality\u201d and of violating attorney-client privilege. [Wisconsin Examiner<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Perhaps the officials of the Wisconsin Republican Party will pay attention to this object lesson and stop acting like idiots.<\/p>\n
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