A Republican lawyer hired to investigate the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin has reportedly been routinely deleting documents he considers “irrelevant or useless,” drawing legal scrutiny.

The practice was revealed after watchdog group American Oversight requested an injunction to hinder Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice spearheading the election review, from destroying the documents.

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