Wisconsin judge ignores impeachment threats, won't recuse in voting case

A liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who received nearly $10 million in campaign contributions from Democrats may now face impeachment for refusing to recuse herself from a districting case over maps she once slammed as “absolutely positively rigged.” Janet Protasiewicz is a newly-elected justice on Wisconsin’s highest court, which has a 4-3 liberal majority. She took the bench in August and has yet to hear a single case. Still, Republicans threatened that if Protasiewicz did not recuse herself from presiding over a challenge to the Republican-drawn state legislative maps, she...