The petition by 54 retired circuit judges asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to require all state judges to step away from cases involving large donors to their election campaigns reflects broader concerns among lawyers and judges about the way the state’s highest court is functioning, according to retired Circuit Judge Thomas Barland of Eau Claire.
Barland calls Legislature’s actions abolishing the GAB “a public lynching”
By David Gordon, associate editor Chippewa Valley Post The state Legislature’s decision to do away with Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (GAB) is nothing other than “a public lynching,” in the opinion of Judge Thomas Barland. Barland, a retired Eau Claire County Circuit Court Judge and a six-year member of the GAB, strongly criticized the Legislature’s action […]