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Judge gives Wisconsin GOP leader chance to avoid contempt

Robin Vos
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FILE - Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos speaks to reporters March 16, 2022, in Madison, Wis. A special investigator's taxpayer-funded contract to look into President Joe Biden's win in the battleground state is set to expire on Saturday, April 30, 2022,. But Donald Trump, the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired to lead the investigation and the chair of the state Assembly committee on elections all want it to continue and are putting pressure on the state's top Republican to extend the much-criticized probe. (AP Photo Scott Bauer File)
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge says the investigator hired by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to look into the 2020 election appears to have "gone rogue" and "run amok" in refusing to comply with the state's open records law.

Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn on Thursday gave the Republican Vos "one last chance" to seek records requested from investigator Michael Gableman before she fines Vos for contempt.

Vos a year ago hired Gableman with $676,000 in taxpayer money to investigate the election won by President Joe Biden. Vos paused the investigation last month, pending the outcome of various lawsuits.

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