Judge David Flanagan and Voter ID

Voter ID, a promise fulfilled by Gov. Scott Walker, winner of the 2010 election, has been blocked by Dane County Judge David Flanagan.

From WISN:

A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction to groups trying to stop the state's controversial new voter identification law.

Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan's decision to grant the injunction stops the law from being in effect for the state's April 3 Republican presidential primary election.

The NAACP's Milwaukee branch and immigration rights group Voces de la Frontera filed their lawsuit last year. A five-day trial on whether there should be a permanent injunction is scheduled for April 16.

Flanagan had first denied an injunction request in February, saying NAACP plaintiffs did not sufficiently demonstrate irreparable harm for an injunction. The NAACP's lawsuit included 40 affidavits describing plaintiffs' difficulties with complying with the law. But Flanagan at the time said the affidavits did not sufficiently demonstrate irreparable harm to justify the injunction. A hearing scheduled for April was supposed to focus on new plaintiff testimony.

Flanagan's motion orders the Government Accountability Board and Gov. Scott Walker to immediately cease any effort to enforce or implement the law pending the April 16 trial.

What can I say?

This is Wisconsin in 2012.

A Dane County judge stands in the way of a law passed by the legislators and signed by the governor voted into office by the people of Wisconsin.

Flanagan says no.

Who is Flanagan?

I don't know, but I do know he wants Gov. Scott Walker booted out of office.

He signed a recall petition circulated by his wife.

View the petition here.

Shock of shocks!

The Leftist, anti-Scott Walker Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting Flanagan's... let's call it non-impartiality.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan, who granted a temporary injunction against Wisconsin's new voter identification law, signed a petition urging the recall of Gov. Scott Walker.

Walker, an ardent supporter of voter ID, signed the legislation creating the requirement last year.

Records show Flanagan signed the Walker recall petition on Nov. 15. The petition lists Flanagan's wife, Maureen McGlynn Flanagan, as the one who circulated the petitiion.

Contacted Tuesday, McGlynn Flanagan - a former assistant attorney general - confirmed that she had gathered signatures in hopes of recalling the first-term Republican governor. She also confirmed that her husband had signed one of the petitions that she circulated.

The Journal Sentinel left a message with Flanagan's chambers asking whether he had signed a recall petition. His clerk called back to say Flanagan would only answer questions submitted in writing at the courthouse.

State Republican Party spokesman Ben Sparks said his party will be filing a complaint with the state Judicial Commission asking it to investigate why Flanagan did not recuse himself.

"The very fact that Dane County Judge David Flanagan signed a petition to recall Governor Walker calls today's court proceedings regarding Wisconsin's voter ID law into question," Sparks said in a statement. "To make matters more troubling, Judge Flanagan also lists Melisa Mulliken, a longtime adviser to Kathleen Falk, as his campaign manager on his offical campaign web page."

This is just nuts.

It's a disgrace that Flanagan didn't recuse himself.

No integrity.