A federal appeals court panel refused Thursday to reinstate Wisconsin Democrats' lawsuit challenging Republican-authored lame-duck laws that curbed the powers of the Democratic governor and attorney general before they took office.

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The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Republican-authored lame-duck laws that stripped power from the incoming Democratic attorney general just before he took office in 2019.

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Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined a coalition of state attorneys general calling for President Donald Trump to withdraw an executive order that allows federal agencies to avoid full compliance with environmental laws on infrastructure projects.

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The Wisconsin Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee signed off on four more legal settlements under the state's lame-duck laws in a whirlwind meeting on Tuesday.

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Attorney General Josh Kaul has restored the state Department of Natural Resources' power to consider, when granting permits, whether high-capacity wells might drain area water bodies.

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Conservative justices who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court raised doubts Tuesday about whether Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order is legal, asserting that the Legislature never intended to give the executive branch so much power.

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Attorney General Josh Kaul urged the conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject a Republican lawsuit seeking to lift Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order, arguing the Democratic governor's administration has broad authority to protect Wisconsin residents from the coronavirus and the GOP has no backup plan.

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Wisconsin and 10 other states have reached a deal with the communications companies T-Mobile and Sprint to settle litigation challenging the companies’ merger, Attorney General Josh Kaul said Thursday.

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The Legislature's budget committee approved three legal settlements Wednesday under Wisconsin's new lame-duck laws.

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Republican lawmakers and Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss settling three lawsuits after the defendants in those cases agreed to make the terms of the deals public.

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