“State law only goes to the state border.”

Hardly. Otherwise all those John Doe leaks would have been legal if they had simply driven to South Beloit, Illinois, just an hour from the capitol, to leak them (it would work both ways, after all.) Crossing the state line does not give you permission to violate a court order.

And that is the dog that didn’t bark.

Having eliminated any other explanation, the only one left is a hit job.

“Because it was opposition research.”

But the investigators can’t say that because that would be admitting that the John Doe probe was a partisan witch hunt from the beginning.

There are many government agencies that are supposed to be non-partisan, however, there is no was to ensure that employees or even agency management is truly non-partisan.

Don’t you remember the IRS going after conservative non-profits?

“no matter what your politics are”—hmmm

ya think that there is a single Dem in Wisconsin that cares?

How silly does this make Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Abrahamson who famously dissented when the Wisconsin Supreme Court put an end to this whole charade?

And punished? What will be that punishment? A slap on the wrist? At a minimum, bar tickets should be pulled permanently.

Because it was opposition research.

And will the Wisconsin Supreme Court have the moral courage to permanently disbar all of the lawyers involved? As well as the judges.

The legal question that intrigues me–the secrecy law. What would prevent a person from going out of state and revealing the existence of the probe? State law only goes to the state border.

– Wikipedia

Can someone explain to me why a nonpartisan regulatory agency needs opposition research?