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19 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
NEW LAWSUIT: We’re suing Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos for failing to release records related to the Assembly’s baseless efforts to investigate the 2020 general election.
americanoversight.org/american-overs…
Speaker Vos has done everything in his power to protect this investigation from scrutiny. Finger-pointing, name-calling, and cavorting with conspiracy theorists are all perfectly legal — but ignoring the open records statute is not.
americanoversight.org/document/compl…
Vos has engaged in a months-long pattern of delay, failure to engage with our inquiries, and narrow disclosure of irrelevant documents to avoid compliance with the law.

It’s time for Speaker Vos to follow the law and make these documents available to the public.
This is our second lawsuit related to the election review in the last week. Our first, filed on October 8 against Vos and the State Assembly, seeks documents held by the contractors hired to complete the investigation. Today’s lawsuit identifies Speaker Vos as the sole defendant.
Learn more about our ongoing investigation into the Wisconsin Assembly’s baseless investigation here:
americanoversight.org/investigation/…

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18 Oct
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This #FOIAFriday, we’re talking about taxpayer spending at properties owned by former president Donald Trump. Here’s some highlights of what we’ve uncovered using FOIA and state open records laws so far.
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15 Oct
Last week, Arizona Senate “audit” liaison Ken Bennett testified before the House Oversight Committee. Now he’s headlining “audit” town halls with a group that organized rallies to support Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Here’s what we’ve uncovered about Bennett.
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15 Oct
BREAKING: The Superior Court of Maricopa County rejected the Arizona Senate’s blanket claim that legislative privilege allows it to withhold most substantive records relating to the partisan “audit” of Maricopa County ballots. This is a big win for transparency.
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13 Oct
NEW LAWSUIT: We sued the Department of Justice to compel the release of records related to former President Trump’s post-election efforts to pressure top department officials to back his baseless voter-fraud claims.
americanoversight.org/american-overs…
Among the records sought are notes from White House meetings during the presidential transition period, a time when Trump and his allies were engaged in a pressure campaign to get DOJ to aid efforts that Trump believed would reverse his election loss.
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13 Oct
On Friday, we sued to compel the release of records related to the Wisconsin Assembly’s partisan election investigation. Just hours later, a Wisconsin court ordered the Assembly to produce the records or to show cause for why the records aren’t released.
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The investigation was initially going to be conducted by retired police officers and an attorney, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman. It is now being run solely by Gableman.
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