The Washington Post and CBS News obtained documents showing a gap of more than seven and a half hours on White House phone logs from the late morning to early evening of Jan. The judge wrote that Vos’ office had taken “no reasonable steps” to procure the requested records from contractors and that he “took no steps at all” either to review the documents he did procure or to prevent other records from being destroyed.Vos and the Assembly now have 14 days to prove they’ve complied with the state’s open records law before they face fines of $1,000 per day.In one of our lawsuits for the release of public records from the Wisconsin Assembly’s partisan election investigation, a state judge has found Speaker Robin Vos and the Assembly to be in contempt for failing to comply with an earlier court order to turn over the documents. From former President Trump’s missing phone logs to still-unreleased public records from the Wisconsin Assembly’s election investigation, efforts to avoid accountability have gone hand in hand with today’s threats to democracy.
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