Of Mike "Peppercorn" Gableman's "peppercorn"

In a word, preposterous:

The notion that the judicial code and ethics laws permit a judge to secretly receive expensive legal services (or fancy cars or lakefront real estate) in return for sham, symbolic payment — say, a "peppercorn" — is not merely frivolous, it seeks to play the [Wisconsin Supreme] Court and the public as fools. Here, Justice Gableman did not ever need to provide even a peppercorn.

Intervenors' Proposed Reply in Support of Recusal or Disqualification