Tuesday, January 3, 2012

3 Judge Panel Rips into GOP Redistricting, for "frivolous" motions, and "flailing wildly in a desperate attempt to hide...the process."

Republicans may have changed our legal system in Wisconsin into a conservative activist venue of kangaroo courts, but our federal judges still haven't made that ugly transition...yet.  

The redistricting slam dunk that was so pivotal to Walker's plans for one party rule hit a big snag, and a group of pissed off judges. josonline’s Jason Stein wrote: 
In a scathing ruling, a three-judge federal panel decided for the third time Tuesday that a Democratic group has a right to an array of information on how Republican lawmakers drew new legislative districts.

Saying that GOP lawmakers and their attorneys have filed "frivolous" motions trying to keep their information private, the panel also required the attorneys for the Republican defendants to pay the attorneys' fees for the plaintiffs for the motion.

"Quite frankly, the Legislature and the actions of its counsel give every appearance of flailing wildly in a desperate attempt to hide from both the court and the public the true nature of exactly what transpired in the redistricting process," the ruling reads.

The panel of judges - two of whom are Republican appointees - gave a rhetorical smack to the GOP lawmakers and their attorneys.

The court "will not suffer the sort of disinformation, foot-dragging, and obfuscation now being engaged in by Wisconsin's elected officials and/or their attorneys," the ruling reads. Three attorneys of the Michael Best & Friedrich firm are being sanctioned as a result..

And guess who one of the attorneys is? 
Eric McLeod, (who) has drawn attention in recent days for providing legal services to state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman under an arrangement in which Gableman did not have to pay.

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