WI: Election denier faces new ethics complaint from progressive lawyers
Two attorneys with a liberal law firm have filed an ethics complaint against Michael Gableman, who led the taxpayer-funded review of Wisconsin’s 2020 election, accusing the former state Supreme Court Justice of waging “a shambolic, dishonest, and destructive campaign against Wisconsin’s democracy at taxpayer expense and in the guise of a public official.”
Law Forward attorneys Daniel Lenz and Jeffrey Mandell filed the more than 100-page complaint Thursday with the Office of Lawyer Regulation, which regulates attorneys in Wisconsin, to take possible action against Gableman’s license to practice law.
The attorneys accuse Gableman of lacking competency to lead the election review; conducting the probe with a lack of honesty and truthfulness; pursuing legal actions despite knowing those actions served to harass or maliciously injure their targets; failing to abide by rules governing the lawyer-client relationship; and violating the basic rules of legal practice, as well as his oath as a Wisconsin attorney.
“Throughout the course of his investigation, Gableman ran roughshod over the law, the facts, and the core democratic principles that bind our state and nation together,” the lawyers state in the complaint. “Instead, he sowed discord and distrust in the electoral process, amplifying the lies and conspiracy theories that have done so much damage in the last two years.”
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