The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Republican-authored lame-duck laws that stripped power from the incoming Democratic attorney general just before he took office in 2019.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul lame-duck session Wisconsin Supreme Court

Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined a coalition of state attorneys general calling for President Donald Trump to withdraw an executive order that allows federal agencies to avoid full compliance with environmental laws on infrastructure projects.

Tagged with: coronavirus Environmental Protection Agency EPA Josh Kaul President Donald Trump

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General Josh Kaul was poised Tuesday to ask lawmakers to approve four more legal settlements under Wisconsin’s lame-duck laws. Kaul, a Democrat, was scheduled to present possible settlements to the ...

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Joint Finance Committee Josh Kaul

A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday ruled that cellphone-charging kiosks that allow users to win or lose money by playing a video game are illegal gambling machines.

Tagged with: Brian Hagedorn Josh Kaul

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul took action on regulating PFAS chemicals and a nationwide antitrust investigation into the generic drug industry on Wednesday.

Tagged with: Antitrust Josh Kaul PFAS

Americans are faced with a crisis of conscience.

Tagged with: Civil Rights Josh Kaul

Wisconsin environmental regulators will consider high-capacity wells' impact on surrounding water bodies when issuing permits, aligning with Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul's stance on the issue.

Tagged with: DNR Josh Kaul

Business owners, candidates for office, a pastor and one of the organizers of last month's "reopen Wisconsin" protest at the Wisconsin Capitol have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that local stay-at-home orders are unconstitutional.

Tagged with: coronavirus Gov. Tony Evers Josh Kaul

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin crime labs took longer to complete DNA, ballistics and forensic evidence testing during Attorney General Josh Kaul’s first year in office, posing troubles for the Democrat after he hammered his ...

Tagged with: Brad Schimel DNA Josh Kaul sexual assault evidence kits

Attorney General Josh Kaul has restored the state Department of Natural Resources' power to consider, when granting permits, whether high-capacity wells might drain area water bodies.

Tagged with: Brad Schimel Josh Kaul wells Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Conservative justices who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court raised doubts Tuesday about whether Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order is legal, asserting that the Legislature never intended to give the executive branch so much power.

Tagged with: Colin Roth coronavirus Department of Health Services Josh Kaul Wisconsin Supreme Court

Gov. Tony Evers' attorney is warning that Wisconsin would see a confusing patchwork of county stay-at-home orders if the state Supreme Court strikes down the existing statewide mandate.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Josh Kaul Ryan Nilsestuen state Legislature Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Wisconsin Supreme Court

Wisconsin and 10 other states have reached a deal with the communications companies T-Mobile and Sprint to settle litigation challenging the companies' merger, Attorney General Josh Kaul said Thursday.

Tagged with: Antitrust Josh Kaul

Sentencing courts may enter civil judgments for unpaid restitution in favor of victims after an offender's death, according to an opinion from Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul.

Tagged with: Attorney General Josh Kaul Restitution

Wisconsin is joining a coalition of states in filing a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration's use of $3.8 billion to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Tagged with: border wall Josh Kaul President Donald Trump

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and other state attorneys general have reached a $1.6 billion trust agreement with the largest generic opioid manufacturer in the U.S.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul opioids

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday that he has joined nearly 40 other state attorneys general in an investigation into whether the electronic-cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc.'s advertising is intended mainly for underage youth.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul

A proposal that began as a bipartisan effort to prevent future delays in the testing of kits for sexual-assault evidence in Wisconsin but that turned into a partisan fight appears doomed in the Legislature.

Tagged with: Brad Schimel Josh Kaul sexual assault sexual assault evidence kits state Legislature

Assembly Republicans handed Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul another defeat Tuesday, approving a bill establishing testing protocols for sexual-assault-evidence kits after tacking on divisive provisions critics say are designed to ensure the proposal never becomes law.

Tagged with: Gordon Hintz Gov. Tony Evers Josh Kaul rape kit Robin Vos sexual assault sexual assault evidence kits state Legislature Wisconsin Assembly

Republican lawmakers and Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss settling three lawsuits after the defendants in those cases agreed to make the terms of the deals public.

Tagged with: Joint Finance Committee Josh Kaul lame-duck session state Legislature Wisconsin Department of Justice

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly accused his challenger Jill Karofsky on Thursday of slandering him and lying about him to advance her own political career, ramping up the rancor in their race for a 10-year spot on the high court.

Tagged with: Dan Kelly Ed Fallone Jill Karofsky Josh Kaul Wisconsin Supreme Court

The Republican chairman of the Assembly's health committee accused the Wisconsin attorney general on Thursday of trying to bully him into passing a bipartisan bill designed to prevent backlogs of untested kits for testing sexual-assault evidence.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul sexual assault evidence kits

The Wisconsin Department of Justice plans to review a series of sexual-assault investigations from the Wisconsin National Guard after a federal report found many were conducted improperly.

Tagged with: Department of Justice Gov. Tony Evers Josh Kaul sexual assault

Law-enforcement agencies in Wisconsin are not consistently reporting human trafficking cases, leading to incomplete information and is likely undercounting the number of people who are forced into the sex trade, a report released by the state attorney general on Thursday found.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul sex trafficking

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul's first year in office was a mixed bag of resounding victories and frustrating defeats. He made plenty of moves to please his base but ran afoul of Republican lawmakers before his first day on the job.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul lame-duck session sexual assault evidence kits

Republican legislators have decided to hire their own attorneys in a federal lawsuit seeking to keep more than 200,000 voter registrations in place.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul Robin Vos Roger Roth Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty

More than 260 Wisconsinites received restitution for alleged consumer-protection violations, according to Attorney General Josh Kaul's office. The payments for the two cases totaled more than $126,000.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul

A conservative law firm asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to bypass a lower court and take the appeal of a ruling that ordered the purge of more than 200,000 voter registrations in the battleground state ahead of the 2020 election.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Wisconsin Supreme Court

Wisconsin is joining a national effort calling for Congress to permanently classify fentanyl and related substances as Schedule I drugs.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul opioids

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has denied two motions in two of the state's lame-duck lawsuits.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul lame-duck session Wisconsin Supreme Court