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Brad Schimel: “What the legislature is, it looks like they're going to…”

Featuring: Brad Schimel, Republican | Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, Waukesha County

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On the Issues Brad Schimel, Attorney General of Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 29:21

We can get information we otherwise don't get, and they're valuable to us. When they get used for a political investigation. Never. You can't seem to avoid it becoming a political battle. Then What the legislature is, it looks like they're going to propose will likely involve some oversight so that a John Doe investigation cannot just go on for years. That without someone taking a look and making sure that it's. That it does meet constitutional standards, that it is investigating a proper law violation. There's no proper law violation. (29:21–29:33)

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Asserts that proposed legislation will add oversight to limit the duration of John Doe investigations.

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