Dane County Judge Frank Remington has ordered the Republican election review to stop deleting emails and texts.
Thursday’s ruling is the latest in a series of legal maneuvers between the investigation led by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and the D.C.-based watchdog group, American Oversight.
That liberal group had previously succeeded in its efforts to get Gableman’s staff to turn over hundreds of pages of records.
Gableman’s attorneys had said “documents and text messages that are not of use to the investigation” are routinely deleted.
American Oversight asked Judge Remington to consider finding Gableman in contempt of court over the deleted communications.
