Wis­con­sin’s own impeach­ment inves­ti­ga­tion turns messy with pan­elist pick

One of the three for­mer Wis­con­sin Supreme Court jus­tices picked to inves­ti­gate whether Janet Pro­tasiewicz, the state’s newest high court judge, should be impeached for tak­ing mon­ey from the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty and refus­ing to recuse her­self on some cas­es, has sim­i­lar skele­tons in his clos­et.
The rev­e­la­tion that for­mer Jus­tice David Pross­er not only gave Pro­tasiewicz’s polit­i­cal rival $500 but also failed to recuse him­self numer­ous times from cas­es involv­ing a law he helped pass as a law­mak­er cre­ates yet anoth­er scan­dal tied to the high-stakes elec­tion this year that swung the court in the Democ­rats’ favor and threat­ened the GOP’s decade­long grip on state pol­i­tics.
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Wis­con­sin Supreme Court Jus­tice David Pross­er asks a ques­tion dur­ing a hear­ing at the state Capi­tol in Madi­son, Wis­con­sin, on June 6, 2011. Pross­er has been tapped to inves­ti­gate impeach­ing new­ly elect­ed Jus­tice Janet Pro­tasiewicz.
(John Hart/AP)

Pross­er said he was tapped for the three-per­son pan­el to inves­ti­gate Pro­tasiewicz by Repub­li­can Assem­bly Speak­er Robin Vos. Vos had vowed to impeach the high court new­com­er bef …