Good investigative journalism.

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This is about the way donations influenced the state of Wisconsin policies under Walker.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/corporate-cash-john-doe-files-scott-walker-wisconsin

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1. It's like a John Grisham novel.

In 2015, Justice Prosser refused to recuse himself from a case in which the state supreme court sat in judgment over the John Doe investigation, despite the fact that the investigation focused on precisely the same network of lobbying groups and donors that had helped him hang onto his seat. The judge joined a majority of four conservative justices who voted to terminate the investigation and destroy all the documents now leaked to the Guardian.

Prosser told the Guardian that four years had passed since his re-election before he joined the decision to close the John Doe investigation, over which time any potential conflict of interest had faded.

[FigTree]

2. And it feels so good

to read something that is actually making a point rather than to evade and distract. The same breath of fresh air we were looking for on DU back in 2003.