Bill Lueders, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Recent Articles from Bill Lueders, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Commentary November 14, 2023

Commentary: Protect the press against bogus lawsuits

Local news outlets serve an invaluable function and deserve protection against those who seek to shut them up.

Commentary February 3, 2023

Public still paying for fraud probe records fights

Many people in Wisconsin are under the impression that the disastrous probe into the state’s 2020 presidential election conducted by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is over, as are its costs to taxpayers. They’re wrong.

Commentary January 20, 2015

Chief justice proposal seen as rip on Abrahamson

A measure for a proposed state constitutional amendment to change how the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s chief justice is selected is on its way to passing a second consecutive legislative session, in time to appear on the April 7 ballot.

Commentary September 19, 2014

Book rips into both political parties

Any lingering doubts about the nonpartisan bona fides of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the state campaign finance watchdog, should be annihilated by Mike McCabe’s new book, “Blue Jeans in High Places.”

Commentary August 20, 2014

AG race could be a sizzler

Both contenders in the Nov. 4 general election have ample resumes; both have prosecuted cases and run district attorney offices.

Commentary July 18, 2014

John Doe probe perceptions vs. reality

A recent column I wrote on the stalled John Doe probe into allegedly illegal campaign activities drew an impassioned email from a reader in Appleton.

Commentary July 11, 2014

More heat than light in AG race flap

Brad Schimel, the lone Republican candidate for state attorney general, ignited a firestorm early this year with his response to a letter alleging pay-to-play politics.

Commentary May 23, 2014

John Doe ruling alters campaign terrain

There seemed to be no doubt about it: The conduct that state Senate President Mike Ellis, R-Neenah, was recently caught on tape discussing – creating an outside group to attack his Democratic opponent – is against the law.

Commentary May 16, 2014

Voting bills get little lobby support

Some Republican state lawmakers, upset by a federal judge’s ruling against the state’s voter identification law, are vowing to introduce new legislation.

Commentary May 2, 2014

Making sense of John Doe II

The ongoing John Doe probe into alleged illegal activities concerning Gov. Scott Walker’s recall election campaign is nothing if not complicated.

Commentary April 11, 2014

Big money backfires in local races

One day before the U.S. Supreme Court opened new spigots of campaign cash, well-backed groups seeking to sway elections in two northern Wisconsin counties, Polk and Iron, inadvertently drove home another point: Throwing money into the process can hurt as well as help.

Commentary March 21, 2014

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