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Wisconsin is making international news again. This time it's a bunch of corrupt and despicable hicks from Manitowoc County . Don...

"The U.S. Second Circuit has ruled that a prosecutor can be held to a standard of 'qualified immunity,' and thus can be sued, f...

Radley Balko in the Washington Post notes the corrupt and malicious ways of the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's office . Imag...

Scott Walker again refused to engage the story alleging that his attorney is involved in plea deal talks with Wisconsin John Doe officials. ...

Judge Rudolph Randa drawing flak Update : "He never should have allowed himself to be involved in that case ( Eric O’Keefe and Wisc...

Update : Jason Stein, Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber report, "A legal civil war broke out Wednesday among targets of a John Doe probe...

Update : From PRWatch : "The news of settlement talks further undermines their description of the probe as a baseless investigation. It...

A bombshell report broke today on Judge Rudolph Randa—whose writing contrived and heavily criticized orders halting the Wisconsin John Doe p...

To listen to Republicans today, the decades-long culture of the VA of Delay, Deny and Hope You Di e sprung into being in January 2009. ...

Update : See  After Railing Against John Doe Secrecy, WI Club for Growth Fights to Keep Docs Secret The best work on the Scott Walker-John...

Update III : Wisconsin Public Radio has updated their story, and confirmed that the story is inaccurate with a link to Judge Randa's pro...

John Doe probe halted by Judge Rudolph Randa is an investigation that grew out of embezzlement from military veterans' funds by Sco...

The Republican Party-aligned special interests pumping $ millions into Wisconsin elections really, really do not want law enforcement to ...

Scott Walker posed at Operation Freedom event. Walker's personal aides stole from this fund meant for veterans. [Note to Scott Wal...

From left to right: Felon Tim Russell, Scott Walker and Felon Brian Pierick , Four other Walker associates were convicted in a Wisconsi...

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's Richard Posner hit prosecutors who violate defendants' rights in an important case j...

Disposable Humans - Eugene Higgens Update : Readers wishing to help this Marine can follow this link . " I have always found that...

PTSD fraud at the VA is like voter fraud on a national level, there is no 'there' there Had an interesting exchange with Attorn...

Drawing by George Grosz - Keep this dark guy from voting or making any other trouble, by any means necessary " Moreover, law mak...

A District Attorney destroys exculpatory evidence; a presiding judge has an affair with the alleged victim, and an innocent Don Miller d...