WI Supreme Court shuts down John Doe investigations

[OldDog]

in which Democrats used police to mount sunrise SWAT raids and serve secrecy orders on conservative leaders.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/07/16/wi...uts-down-polit

"They came with a battering ram."
http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...n-david-french

Fortunately no people (or dogs) were physically harmed.

[GenuineRisk]

So a four-justice conservative majority stops investigation into whether Walker violated campaign finance law... three days after he declares he's running for President. And guts campaign finance laws at the same time.

The groups that were being investigated spent $10 million getting those very same judges elected. To decide that no, of course there were no shenanigans here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/billy-...b_7813190.html

Uh huh. Oh, Wisconsin. You are truly becoming the Mississippi of the Central North.

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

So a four-justice conservative majority stops investigation into whether Walker violated campaign finance law... three days after he declares he's running for President. And guts campaign finance laws at the same time.

The groups that were being investigated spent $10 million getting those very same judges elected. To decide that no, of course there were no shenanigans here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/billy-...b_7813190.html

Uh huh. Oh, Wisconsin. You are truly becoming the Mississippi of the Central North.

You better get to know Scott Walker since he will most likely be the Right wing nominee for Prez...

[OldDog]

Sucks when a court interprets the law in a way with which you disagree, eh? Never mind that it's consistent with prior interpretations. And then you have to return people the property that you took in dawn raids upon their homes as if they were dope pushing, gun running cartels.

¶28 On October 1, 2013, Reserve Judge Kluka authorized 29 subpoenas duces tecum to, among others, Unnamed Movants Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8, based on an affidavit submitted to her by Investigator Stelter. These subpoenas compelled production of documents evidencing the conduct of coordination among the subpoenaed parties and a candidate committee, particularly the interaction between Unnamed Movants Nos. 1 and 2. That same day Reserve Judge Kluka authorized search warrants for the homes and offices of Unnamed Movants Nos. 6 and 7. The search warrants were executed at approximately 6:00 a.m. on October 3, 2013, in pre-dawn, armed, paramilitary-style raids in which bright floodlights were used to illuminate the targets' homes.

¶29 The breadth of the documents gathered pursuant to subpoenas and seized pursuant to search warrants is amazing. Millions of documents, both in digital and paper copy, were subpoenaed and/or seized. Deputies seized business papers, computer equipment, phones, and other devices, while their targets were restrained under police supervision and denied the ability to contact their attorneys. The special prosecutor obtained virtually every document possessed by the Unnamed Movants relating to every aspect of their lives, both personal and professional, over a five-year span (from 2009 to 2013). Such documents were subpoenaed and/or seized without regard to content or relevance to the alleged violations of Ch. 11. As part of this dragnet, the special prosecutor also had seized wholly irrelevant information, such as retirement income statements, personal financial account information, personal letters, and family photos.

http://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...l&seqNo=144527