Wisconsin’s far-left top prosecutor still isn’t commenting two days after The Federalist first reported the state Department of Justice led a raid on the office and home of Wausau Mayor Douglas Diny — a law enforcement operation tied to Diny’s removal and relocation of an unsecured absentee ballot drop box outside city hall.
Meanwhile, Rep. Tom Tiffany, a Republican who represents Wausau in northern Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, said that he’d like the House Judiciary Committee to investigate Attorney General Josh Kaul’s politically driven probe. Tiffany, who serves on the committee, told Wisconsin conservative talk show host Vicki McKenna that Kaul’s actions reek of the kind of politically weaponized investigations and prosecutions Biden-Harris administration Attorney General Merrick Garland has delivered during his tenure.
“I see Merrick Garland doing stuff like this out in Washington, D.C., whether it’s on Catholics or people in school board meetings, whatever the case may be,” said the congressman, referring to some of the U.S. Department of Justice’s many targets. “Now it appears Josh Kaul for Halloween wants to be the mini-Merrick Garland.”
‘Actions of Jack-Booted Thugs’
On Friday, a source with knowledge of Wednesday’s raid told The Federalist that law enforcement officials seized cell phones and other electronic devices supposedly relevant to the Wausau investigation. That included Diny’s wife’s cell phone, said the source who asked not to be identified because of the developing nature of the case.
An official in the attorney general’s office told The Federalist the state justice department could provide more
