MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) — Attorney General Josh Kaul says Republican lawmakers can’t replace the head of the state elections commission.
The Democratic Attorney General sent a letter to the head of the legislature’s legal council this week. Kaul says the elections commission hasn’t voted to replace Meagan Wolfe so the Senate can’t replace her. That’s because the state supreme court ruled last year a person isn’t removed from a commission or board just because their term is over.
The decision was in favor of a Republican appointee to the state Natural Resources Board who stayed on the board two years after his term ran out. Kaul argues the same applies to Wolfe.
A hearing on Wolfe’s potential replacement is set for next week.
