Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed an amicus brief with the state's supreme court arguing that investigators should not be able to retain copies of the documents they seized in the "John Doe" probes of associates of Governor Scott Walker. The supreme court had previously ordered the investigator defendants to destroy the documents after it ordered the probe closed. Read more at Courthouse News Service.
Former West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has filed to run in the nonpartisan election for the state's supreme court in May. McGraw previously sat on the court before five terms as the state's attorney general. He was defeated by current Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in 2012. Read more at The Washington Times.