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Michael Gableman, the former Supreme Court justice reviewing Wisconsin’s 2020 election, has a history of trouble with facts

Quoted: “He’s been I would say argumentative and somewhat belligerent,” said Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“It’s a little bit of a sort of bull in the china shop analogy, that he’s just throwing elbows and feels, it seems, quite confident about what he’s doing. … I can’t diagnose him psychologically from a distance. I wouldn’t want to do that. But there is a pattern of him being brazen I would say and aggressive in his actions without maybe thinking about all the consequences of what he’s doing.”