Judge Orders Attorneys to Meet and Try and Resolve Records Dispute in 2020 Election Investigation

Thursday, February 10th, 2022 -- 8:01 AM

(AP) A judge on Tuesday ordered attorneys to meet and try and resolve their dispute over whether Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos turned over all requested records related to the ongoing investigation into the 2020 presidential race.

Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn again repeated her concerns that some of the records requested by the liberal watchdog group American Oversight might have been destroyed.

“This has got to stop,” the judge said. “Either these records exist or they don’t. ... If they were deleted or destroyed after an open records request was made, I think that’s relevant and I think the court needs to hear that.”

Vos’ attorney, Ronald Stadler, said no records were deleted after open records requests from American Oversight were received. But American Oversight attorney Christa Westerberg argued that records could have been deleted because requests sometimes weren’t forwarded to Vos staff members for days.

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