After being fired by Robin Vos over election review, Michael Gableman now lists conservative law firm as employer

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MADISON - Days after being fired by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is now working for a conservative law firm that assisted his now-discontinued taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election.

Gableman listed his occupation as senior counsel at The Thomas More Society in a presentation he delivered over the weekend at a conference hosted by MyPillow executive Mike Lindell that focused on election conspiracies.

The new position is being promoted days after Vos terminated Gableman's contract overseeing the Assembly's election review after Gableman campaigned for Vos' primary opponent Adam Steen, who came within 300 votes of defeating the legislative leader.

The law firm subleased office space in Brookfield from Gableman while he was conducting the election review. Gableman planned to have the firm take over the lease when his review was complete.

Gableman did not mention his contract termination during the 20-minute presentation at Lindell's "Moment of Truth" summit in Springfield, Missouri.

Gableman and a spokesman for The Thomas More Society, which is not affiliated with the St. Thomas More Lawyers Society of Wisconsin, did not respond to questions about Gableman's employment. A spokeswoman for Vos directed questions to the law firm.

Gableman promoted election conspiracy theories throughout review

The election review catapulted Gableman to allyship with former President Donald Trump, who asked Gableman to provide an invocation at a rally he held in Waukesha earlier this month to campaign for Republican candidate for governor Tim Michels.

Republican candidates, including Michels and Attorney General hopeful Eric Toney, will appear with Gableman at an Appleton fundraiser in September.

Through his review and promotion of election conspiracy theories, Gableman has become a celebrity in an industry that emerged following the 2020 election built on denying the legitimacy of President Joe Biden's victory.

Biden won Wisconsin by about 21,000 votes — a result that has been confirmed by recounts, lawsuits, nonpartisan state audits and a study by a conservative law firm. Similarly, he won the vote in all the other states that were close.

Gableman's review cost Wisconsin taxpayers more than $1 million

Gableman has, through his review, sought to tie grant funding aimed at helping address COVID-related issues in running the election to voter fraud but has produced no evidence to prove the funding resulted in widespread cheating.

The review was initially supposed to be conducted by retired police detectives and focused on voting machines, with more than half of the original $676,000 budget set aside for their analysis. But documents related to the review released under the state's public records law suggest that analysis never took place.

Instead, it has looked at absentee voting in a Racine County nursing home and private grant funding from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that was distributed to municipalities to help administer elections during the coronavirus pandemic — both concerns first raised by others.

The review began July 1, 2021 and resulted in a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 million, or more than $300,000 over his budget.

It has been accompanied by a steady drumbeat of explosive court hearings and rulings in lawsuits over Gableman's desire to jail election officials and mayors who refused to be interviewed behind closed doors, and his decision to ignore requests from the public for records related to his probe.

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Contact Molly Beck at molly.beck@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @MollyBeck.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: After being fired over election review, Michael Gableman has a new job