Oops! They did it again!
President Pedo and DOJ Barbie made another questionable appointment for a US Attorney. This time the appointee is Brad Schimel. Yes, that’s right, the same Brad Schimel that got his butt handed to him to him, along with President Elmo, this past spring in an election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Originally, I thought that Schimel was still trying to get use of his kneepads, but it turned out he got the job through good, old-fashioned cronyism. Instead of waiting for a commission established by Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson, Schimel just texted his old friend Pam Blondi:
Once the commission failed to find a candidate, Schimel said he reached out to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, whom he knows from their time as state attorneys general.
Interim U.S. Attorneys are allowed to hold that role for 120 days, though the Trump administration has tried in other states to extend that period.
I’m seeing a pattern forming here. In 2018, when he was voted out of the Wisconsin Attorney General’s office, then lame duck Governor Scott Walker appointed him to a circuit court judge position. Now, he loses another election and gets appointed to a gig as US Attorney.
