Wisconsin Republicans are taking steps toward sidelining the states nonpartisan elections chief and undercutting the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court . Republicans in the state Senate are moving to fire Meagan Wolfe the administrator of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission who continues to be the target of false conspiracy theories about the election . Meanwhile the justices themselves are ensnared in a bitter public feud playing out before the courts four liberal members voted to weaken the chief justices powers and fire the conservative director of state courts . Republicans are threatening to use a constitutional mechanism reserved for the greatest of crises as a means for a power grab . If the Assembly votes to impeach the justice and the Senate were to convict and remove her from office Democratic Gov. Tony Evers would appoint her replacement. If the Senate takes no action at all she would be suspended from all official duties leaving the court deadlocked . The fights cast a cloud of uncertainty over the election in a state that cemented Donald Trumps vote victory in and then handed Joe Biden a vote win in . The Republican Party chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party says this is a ‘red alert for democracy and the rule of law is a threat to the rule-abiding democracy’ Experts say Republicans dont have the power to remove Wolfe say Republicans don’t have the ability to remove Wolf. The Republican Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu a Republican has said the Senate would not consider acting on Protasiewicz. The Republicans have said the Republican Senate will not act on Prot as they don’t have the right to impeaching Protas’s . The Wisconsin Supreme Court is not to impeached Protas. It would be a ‘underesterested in the law’ to impeacacability’. It is
Wisconsin GOP weighs moves to sideline elections chief and liberal Supreme Court majority . Wisconsin GOP weighing
