MADISON, Wis. — Days after Assembly Speaker Robin Vos effectively ended Michael Gableman’s investigation into the 2020 election, a lawsuit related to the investigation has officially been dismissed, online court records show.
The case, filed in Waukesha County, was dismissed in its entirety on Monday. On Friday, Vos withdrew subpoenas that required a number of Wisconsin mayors to testify in the Gableman inquiry.
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Gableman had sought to imprison the mayors of Madison, Green Bay and Racine for failing to comply with the subpoenas. The officials had said they would only testify publicly, but Gableman wanted the testimony to be private.
In a statement Monday, Rhodes-Conway said it’s time for the state to move on from the investigation.
“The end of the Gableman reign of error is ten months late and a million dollars short,” she said. “Wisconsin residents are appalled at the enormous waste of taxpayer money and the damage caused by this sham investigation. From the start it was a partisan, fact-free and incompetent effort. We expect better from legislative leaders and attorneys working on their behalf. We can finally move on from the 2020 election but make no mistake, our democracy was damaged by this effort.”
Gableman had put himself at odds in recent weeks with the Assembly speaker who had hired him, even endorsing Vos’ primary opponent in a race that was decided by fewer than 300 votes. After winning the primary, Vos called Gableman “an embarrassment” and fired him shortly thereafter, a move that put Vos up against conservative members of his own party, including former President Donald Trump.
Vos’ primary opponent, who ran a campaign with election integrity as a main issue and who received Trump’s backing, has said he will face Vos as a write-in candidate this fall.
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