Stephanie
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People need to open their eyes. This is the NEW dirty TACTIC the progressive party is using. They did the same thing to Palin , Perry and now this:
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Posted by William A. Jacobson Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 12:12pm
Appeals Brief: “a years-long crusade against Governor Scott Walker, his associates, and now his philosophical allies”
We have written many times about the secretive John Doe proceedings in which Wisconsin prosecutors seized a wide-range of records from numerous conservative activists on the theory that it was a crime for such activists to coordinate issue advocacy with the campaign of Governor Scott Walker.
In a federal lawsuit brought by two of the targets, Eric O’Keefe and Wisconsin Club for Growth (the “Club”), a federal district court judge enjoined the John Doe investigation finding, among other things, that the investigation violated the targets’ constitutional free speech rights. The court also found that the prosecutors advanced an invalid theory of criminal liability, since such coordination did not violate campaign finance laws. A state court judge earlier had made a similar finding.
The John Doe investigators, who are defendants in the federal lawsuit, have appealed to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
O’Keefe and the Club filed their responsive appeals brief today. A copy is embedded at the bottom of this post.
The brief is deep into the law, but it’s the factual recitation which is riveting, detailing a prosecutorial conspiracy to sway the political process against conservatives and to undermine Walker.
Here is the full Summary of Argument:
all of it here:
Wisconsin John Doe Scott Walker Appeal Conservatives
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Posted by William A. Jacobson Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 12:12pm
Appeals Brief: “a years-long crusade against Governor Scott Walker, his associates, and now his philosophical allies”
We have written many times about the secretive John Doe proceedings in which Wisconsin prosecutors seized a wide-range of records from numerous conservative activists on the theory that it was a crime for such activists to coordinate issue advocacy with the campaign of Governor Scott Walker.
In a federal lawsuit brought by two of the targets, Eric O’Keefe and Wisconsin Club for Growth (the “Club”), a federal district court judge enjoined the John Doe investigation finding, among other things, that the investigation violated the targets’ constitutional free speech rights. The court also found that the prosecutors advanced an invalid theory of criminal liability, since such coordination did not violate campaign finance laws. A state court judge earlier had made a similar finding.
The John Doe investigators, who are defendants in the federal lawsuit, have appealed to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
O’Keefe and the Club filed their responsive appeals brief today. A copy is embedded at the bottom of this post.
The brief is deep into the law, but it’s the factual recitation which is riveting, detailing a prosecutorial conspiracy to sway the political process against conservatives and to undermine Walker.
Here is the full Summary of Argument:
all of it here:
Wisconsin John Doe Scott Walker Appeal Conservatives
