Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says he would support closing the state's troubled youth prison if corrections officials could find another way to handle serious juvenile offenders but no good alternatives have emerged yet.
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AG agrees sex harassment complaints should be secret
Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says he agrees with legislative leaders' stance that sexual harassment complaints against lawmakers and their staff should be secret.
Read More »Sparring over Evers’ legal representation continues
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is telling state Superintendent Tony Evers he won't stop him from hiring a personal attorney to represent him in a lawsuit challenging his office's powers.
Read More »View from around the state: Schimel acts as if Walker campaign were his client
Attorney General Brad Schimel is not the lawyer for Gov. Scott Walker's re-election campaign. But, in a stunning breach of faith that displays his extreme partisanship, Schimel is acting as if the Walker campaign were his client.
Read More »Evers refusing to let attorney general represent him (UPDATE)
State Superintendent Tony Evers, a Democratic candidate for governor, said Tuesday he refuses to be represented by the Republican-led Wisconsin Department of Justice in a lawsuit challenging his independence.
Read More »AG to represent schools superintendent in lawsuit despite conflict
Republican Gov. Scott Walker ordered state Justice Department attorneys on Wednesday to represent schools Superintendent Tony Evers in a lawsuit alleging Evers is writing education regulations without the governor's permission, even though the department believes Evers is overstepping his authority.
Read More »AG tells Walker board can make self-insurance available
Attorney General Brad Schimel says the state Group Insurance Board can offer self-insurance plans to municipal employers.
Read More »Schimel doubts state will join health care lawsuit
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says he doubts he'll join a lawsuit seeking to force President Donald Trump's administration to make health care subsidy payments.
Read More »Liberal group: Delayed DOJ blood tests led to fatal crash
Prosecutors were waiting for the state crime lab to complete blood tests on a repeat drunken driver this summer when he struck and killed a man changing a flat tire along the interstate.
Read More »DOJ sets up website to track sex assault kit tests
The state Department of Justice has set up a public website that tracks the agency's efforts to test hundreds of untested sexual assault evidence kits.
Read More »Big stakes in high court fight over partisan political maps
Democrats and Republicans are poised for a Supreme Court fight about political line-drawing that could change the balance of power in a country starkly divided between the two parties.
Read More »Appeals court upholds Wisconsin’s right-to-work law (UPDATE)
A Wisconsin appeals court upheld the state's right-to-work law on Tuesday, handing Gov. Scott Walker a victory by reversing a lower-court ruling that had struck down the law he championed as unconstitutional last year.
Read More »Schimel adds deputy solicitor general
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel has hired a new deputy solicitor general. Schimel announced Monday that he had appointed the Appleton native Sopen Shah to the position. Shah earned her law degree from Yale University Law School in 2015. She was a law clerk for Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Debra Ann Livingston and then-district court Judge Amul Thapar ...
Read More »AG spends $83K on promotional items
Newly released records show Attorney General Brad Schimel has spent about $83,000 on promotional items during his term, including bags, pistol cases and candy.
Read More »AG creates temporary crime lab positions
Attorney General Brad Schimel is creating 11 new temporary crime lab positions to handle increased submissions.
Read More »Schimel taps assistant prosecutor to lead criminal appeals
Attorney General Brad Schimel has chosen a new leader for the state Department of Justice’s criminal-appeals unit. Schimel announced Thursday that he had chosen Assistant Attorney General Clayton Kawski to fill the spot. Kawski started working for the DOJ in 2010. He led the DOJ’s special-litigation and appeals unit but left in 2016 when Gov. Scott Walker appointed him to ...
Read More »Officials sued over hunter harassment law
A group of Wisconsin residents say the state's hunter harassment law stifles free speech and are suing state officials in federal court.
Read More »Schimel ends first half of year with $380K on hand
A new campaign finance report shows Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel's campaign finished the first half of 2017 with nearly $400,000 on hand.
Read More »Democratic attorney general candidate raises $174K
Democratic attorney general hopeful Josh Kaul has raised more than $170,000.
Read More »Attorney general reveals opioid investigation
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has taken the unusual step of revealing the state Department of Justice is investigating opioid manufacturers to see what role they may have played in creating addicts, a day after Senate Democrats pushed him to exact compensation from the companies. Schimel has been on the forefront ...
Read More »Schimel: Court should stay order for new legislative maps
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel wants the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an order to redraw Wisconsin's legislative district boundaries.
Read More »Schimel urges Supreme Court to protect GOP-drawn districts
Wisconsin's attorney general is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the state's Republican-drawn legislative districts.
Read More »Schimel appeals ‘Cocaine Mom’ ruling
Wisconsin's attorney general is asking a federal appeals court to reinstate a law that allows the state to detain pregnant women suspected of drug abuse.
Read More »Schimel, Republicans bring back child neglect bill
Attorney General Brad Schimel and Sen. Rob Cowles are re-introducing a bill that would make proving child neglect easier and make repeated acts of neglect a crime.
Read More »DOJ: 63 of 6,000 sexual assault kits tested so far
Only about 60 of 6,000 untested sexual assault evidence kits sitting on Wisconsin shelves have been analyzed so far, state Department of Justice officials said Monday.
Read More »Voters urge US Supreme Court to uphold Wis. gerrymandering ruling
A group of voters is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a ruling striking down Wisconsin's GOP-drawn legislative districts.
Read More »Schimel: Undercover campaign video probe still alive
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says an investigation into secretly recorded videos of a Democratic activist appearing to brag about sending troublemakers to Donald Trump rallies remains open, after initially saying it was closed.
Read More »Prosecutors, judge weigh in on proposed change to expungement rules
In the decades that Rock County District Attorney David O’Leary has been a prosecutor, he's learned it's not just juveniles who can suffer for years for acts that were ill-thought-out and possibly out of character.
Read More »Schimel: Undercover campaign videos reveal no crime
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has concluded that secretly recorded videos of a Democratic activist bragging about deploying troublemakers at Donald Trump presidential campaign rallies show no evidence that laws were broken.
Read More »Lautenschlager’s son announces attorney general bid
Former Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager's son says he's going to run for his mother's old job.
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