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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Attorney General Josh Kaul is joining 13 other district attorneys general in support of public servants denied federal wiping out of their student-loan debt. Kaul signed onto an amicus brief filed in support of public servants on Friday.

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Attorney General Josh Kaul says testing is finally finished on thousands of unanalyzed kits for sexual-assault evidence.

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Wisconsin is suing the Environmental Protection Agency to protect states' ability to adopt emissions standards that are stricter than those set at the national level. Attorney General Josh Kaul joined a coalition of 23 other states and three cities in the lawsuit Friday.

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Attorney General Josh Kaul is divvying up $1.5 million in grants for drug courts.

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A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling that Republican state lawmakers can't intervene in a Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging certain Wisconsin abortion restrictions.

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Republicans who control the Legislature's budget committee signed off Thursday on the state's first settlement under laws that granted them oversight of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul's legal negotiations.

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Wisconsin's Josh Kaul has joined a coalition of attorneys general investigating Facebook over antitrust issues.

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Republicans tried to persuade the state Supreme Court on Monday to dismiss a union lawsuit challenging their contentious lame-duck laws, insisting during oral arguments that the laws don't violate the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said Wednesday he won't join a multistate settlement with the Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says hundreds of millions of dollars could be at stake in lawsuit settlements that can't be approved without the state Legislature's assent.

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Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature's finance committee scuttled a meeting Wednesday to discuss settling seven lawsuits with Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul as the two sides continued to squabble over confidentiality agreements.

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Faced with a tight deadline, the Republican co-chairs of the Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee said Thursday that their attorney will sign a confidentiality agreement requested by Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to end a stalemate over lawsuit settlements.

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Attorney General Josh Kaul is warning that a resurgence of online vigilantes posing as children to trap and embarrass sexual predators is hampering police efforts.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined a multistate lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to ease restrictions on coal-fired power plants.

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Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers sued the Democratic attorney general Thursday, arguing that he's not complying with laws passed during a lame-duck legislative session in December that limited his and the incoming governor's powers shortly before they took office.

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Charges have been filed against nine people so far as a result of the Wisconsin Department of Justice's work to test thousands of kits containing evidence collected from sexual assault victims.

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Two months ago, we applauded Attorney General Josh Kaul's proposal to strengthen Wisconsin's efforts to combat human trafficking, and called for bipartisan support to add positions at the Department of Justice to help with investigations.

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Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul is looking for public comment as he drafts legal opinions.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated almost all of the laws passed by Republicans during a December lame-duck legislative session that limited the powers of the state's incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated almost all of Republican legislators' lame-duck laws limiting Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul's powers, but the legal fight isn't over.

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Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general says he likely would defend in court the state law that effectively stripped public employees of collective bargaining rights.

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