Earlier this month, a national watchdog group filed a lawsuit against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the Wisconsin Assembly for failing to turn over documents related to the ongoing review of last year’s presidential election. And now, Speaker Vos is facing a second lawsuit to turn over his documents.
First up today, we talk with Austin Evers from American Oversight to discuss these lawsuits.
Then, Matt Rothschild from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign joins to give the play-by-play of what’s happening on the ground in Wisconsin and why these sham election reviews are a threat to democracy.
Austin Evers is executive director and founder of the non-partisan nonprofit organization American Oversight. Previously, Evers served as senior counsel in the Department of State, where he oversaw transparency matters involving Congress, law enforcement, advocacy groups, and media investigations.
Matt Rothschild is executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. He was the senior editor of The Progressive magazine from 1994 to 2014. He is the author of You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression (New Press, 2007) and the editor of Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive, 1909–2009 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).
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