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Wisconsin Constitutional Crisis

May 17, 2023

Pay increase for Assistant District Attorneys and Public Defenders passes Budget Committee

Wisconsin inched closer to the light at the end of the tunnel in preventing a constitutional crisis Tuesday in Madison. 

May 5, 2023

Speaker Vos: Assistant District Attorney wages should be increased ‘substantially’

Vos said he wants to increase District Attorney pay for exisiting staff and new hires.

Mar 23, 2023

Wisconsin on brink of constitutional crisis as courts face unprecedented DA, public defender shortage

Editors Note: Our Managing Editor, Steve Schuster spoke to Judges, the Office of Lawyer Regulation, Federal Prosecutors, District Attorneys throughout the Midwest, the State Bar of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Attorney General, Governor Tony's Evers office, as well as legislatures to determine the full extent of the problem and possible solutions on how to fix Wisconsin's broken criminal justice system.

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