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Sen. Johnson continues to insist on investigations into the November election

December 31, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

US Senator Ron Johnson is continuing to push for investigations into the November presidential election, even as most of the nation prepares for President-elect Joe Biden to take office in January.

On Fox News on Wednesday, Johnson brought up the idea during an interview about the stimulus vote. 

“I personally think we do have to take a look at what happened in the election. We can’t just forget it and move on like Democrats want us to. We need to seriously consider what fraud did occur. The other types of… lack of transparency, the problems that we did have, the irregularities in this election need to be examined and they need to be corrected for the next election.”

Those claims of fraud and misconduct have consistently fallen short in court, and the Trump Campaign has lost nearly every single legal challenge it’s brought forward. 

The campaign is pushing to bring a failed federal court challenge in Wisconsin to the US Supreme Court.

 

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt

Health-care worker ‘intentionally’ ruined more than 500 coronavirus vaccine doses at Grafton hospital

December 31, 2020 By Bob Hague

Advocate Aurora Health says 57 vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine were deliberately removed from a refrigerator.

Aurora initially thought what occurred last weekend at its Grafton hospital was an “error,” which resulted in 500 doses being discarded. But the health care provider said in a Wednesday update that after an internal investigation, an employee acknowledged that they intentionally removed the vaccine from refrigeration.

That person has been fired, and appropriate authorities have been notified for further investigation.

The Grafton Police Department said in a statement late Wednesday that it was notified by Aurora shortly after 6 p.m. “regarding an employee tampering with vials of the COVID-19 vaccine” at its hospital, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The incident is being investigated by the FBI and the Food and Drug Administration as well as Grafton police, according to the statement.

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News

Federal appeals court again rejects Trump Campaign challenge to Wisconsin election results

December 25, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

It’s yet another legal defeat for the Trump Campaign in their efforts to overturn the results of the Wisconsin presidential election.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Thursday that the Trump Campaign waited too long to complain about how the election was handled, and that their reasons for objecting were faulty.

The Campaign was trying to argue that the Elections Commission should not have allowed local clerks to complete address fields on absentee ballots, and that drop boxes were an illegal way to collect ballots.

The court stated that if the campaign wanted to complain about those decisions, they should have done so before the election.

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt

State Supreme Court to hear case on digital privacy and evidence collection

December 21, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

The State Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could define how police are allowed to search and use cell phones as part of their investigations.

George Burch was convicted in 2018 in the murder of Nichole VanderHeyden in Green Bay. Police caught Burch by connecting him to the case with the use of cell phone data that they had gathered from him while downloading his text messages several months before in an unrelated case.

At issue is whether or not police should have retained that phone data past the point of the previous investigation. There’s also a discussion to what extent police can actually search your phone when you give consent to only parts of the data on the device.

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt

Lac du Flambeau man denied appeal in brutal murder in Iron County

December 17, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

The State Supreme Court has denied an appeal to one of several men convicted in a brutal murder in northern Wisconsin.

Joseph Lussier was convicted in 2018 in the death of Wayne Valliere Jr. Police say Lussier and four other men drove Valliere out to rural Iron County and shot and beat him to death before hiding his body.

Lussier says that a judge was wrong to immediately sentence him to life in prison without giving him a chance to have a full sentencing investigation. The appeals court disagreed, and said that Lussier was properly informed by the judge that he could be sentenced after a jury reached a verdict.

The State Supreme Court decided on Thursday to not to hear a further appeal.

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News

Former Golden Guernsey Dairy will pay fired workers as part of bankruptcy

December 17, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

Workers that were unexpectedly fired when Golden Guernsey Dairy closed in 2013 are going to be getting checks.

Attorney General Josh Kaul says that any worker who puts in their time ought to be paid for it, even after the company no longer exists. 

“That can have an enormous impact on a family and recovering those funds is a huge deal for the families that are impacted.”)

Golden Guernsey closed unexpectedly in 2013, and didn’t notify the state or pay their workers.  “Unfortunately the bankruptcy process can take a while and that’s what happened in this case.”

Each employee will be eligible for over 11-thousand dollars in wages, and more if there’s money left while the proceedings continue.

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Baldwin not surprised by continued legal losses by Trump Campaign

December 11, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

Another court has tossed out a legal challenge to the state’s election, and Senator Tammy Baldwin says she’s not surprised.

Baldwin says Wisconsin conducted fair elections, and that was verified by both canvassing and the recount.

“Very few votes were changed by those processes, so we know that our municipal clerks do a very good job of conducting fair and transparent elections.”

Baldwin says that Wisconsin residents went above and beyond to make sure that they were voting safely and legally through absentee voting.

“We saw in the state of Wisconsin record turnout we saw people endeavoring to vote safely during a pandemic.”

She says that clerks went above and beyond to handle the election in a safe and transparent process, extending to both the canvassing process and the recounts in Dane and Milwaukee Counties.

A lawsuit filed by former Trump attorney Sidney Powell was dismissed on Wednesday by federal judge Pamela Pepper. Three other lawsuits have also been dismissed by the State Supreme Court.

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt

Federal judge in Wisconsin tosses out another challenge to the election

December 10, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

One of several lawsuits against the election filed by a former Trump attorney has been tossed out of a federal court in Wisconsin.

That lawsuit, one of the so-called ‘Kraken’ cases filed by former Trump attorney Sidney Powell, was dismissed on Wednesday by federal judge Pamela Pepper.

In her order, Judge Pepper called the lawsuit “an extraordinary intrusion on state sovereignty from which a federal court should abstain.”. Judge Pepper further wondered why the private citizen Powell was representing even thought that they had standing to file the case, given that they were not a candidate in the election.

That loss to the Trump campaign follows three other losses at the State Supreme Court.

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt

Wisconsin joins anti-trust lawsuit against Facebook

December 10, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

Wisconsin is joining 48 other states in a lawsuit accusing Facebook of anti-trust violations.

Attorney General Josh Kaul says Facebook has long engaged in anti-competitive practices, and has sought to either buy out or stamp out any competition using the weight of its position as the largest social media platform in the country.

The lawsuit alleges that Facebook executives orchestrated the purchases of competitors WhatsApp and Instagram in order to prevent them from gaining market shares, and that the company uses its massive user base to spy on people and violate their privacy in order to sell advertising.

Filed Under: Business, Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt

Sen. Baldwin calls for full FBI investigation into Qanon

December 10, 2020 By Raymond Neupert

Senator Tammy Baldwin is calling on the FBI and Homeland Security to lay out the dangers of the Q-Anon movement as domestic terrorism.

Senator Baldwin joins other Democrats in asking for more information and more study into the movement. 

“Qanon conspiracy theories have inspired acts of domestic extremism and violence and there’s a very real concern that this has grown into an ideology that is radicalizing individuals to violence.”

QAnon conspiracy theories have inspired acts of violence and tried to undermine our democratic institutions. It’s dangerous, and the FBI & DHS must provide a clear and public assessment of the threat posed by QAnon both in the U.S. and abroad. https://t.co/TdG862gzbO

— Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) December 9, 2020

Baldwin wants FBI Director Christopher Wray and DHS to also investigate possible ties to Russian influence in the organization dating back to 2017.

The House of Representatives has already passed a measure denouncing the movement, and Baldwin wants to make sure that federal agencies and law enforcement are giving Qanon the proper attention. 

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt

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