IT’S NOT OVER IN WISCONSIN: Schimel says Ethics Commission chairman should recuse himself from matters related to leak investigation. “Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is disputing arguments made by the state’s Ethics Commission and asking its chairman to recuse himself from matters related to a recently released Department of Justice report. . . . Schimel argued Halbrooks, who was a witness in the first John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker and his associates during his time as Milwaukee County Executive, should recuse himself from any involvement related to the most recent DOJ investigation. The first John Doe investigation was used as a basis for the second secret probe and, Schimel argued, a third investigation DOJ refers to as ‘John Doe III.’ The ‘previously unknown and secret investigation into a broad range of Wisconsin Republicans’ was uncovered during the DOJ investigation of the Guardian leak.”