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Wisconsin’s GOP members of Congress want the chance to urge the state Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the state’s House districts rather than moving forward with a novel approach to hear such lawsuits.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley, who told WisPolitics in April she planned to seek reelection next year, raised nothing for her campaign over the first half of 2025, according to a new filing.
In the initial ad of the campaign, Berrien likens himself to Donald Trump, saying he’s an outsider and a businessman.
The former Madison clerk showed an “astonishing” lack of urgency after discovering 193 absentee ballots that hadn’t been included in the city’s November tally and failed to follow the law in how they were handled, according to a draft Elections Commission report.
A progressive law firm has filed suit in Dane County seeking to overturn Wisconsin’s congressional map, arguing it is an “anti-competitive gerrymander” that is an “affront” to the state Constitution.
A split state Supreme Court today overturned the Legislature’s power to suspend administrative rules, ending decades of lawmakers having the power to at least temporarily block agency regulations.
Gov. Tony Evers early this morning signed a $111.1 billion budget less than an hour after it cleared the full Legislature as he and lawmakers raced to complete the document before Congress signed off on the reconciliation bill.
That’s because a provision in that federal bill would block a plan in the state budget to increase a hospital assessment to generate additional federal revenue that would then largely be sent back to hospitals.
Writing for the majority in a 4-3 ruling, liberal Justice Rebecca Dallet found changes the state has made to abortion laws over the past 50 years implicitly repealed the 1849 law.
The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee plans to approve a $2.5 billion capital budget that would close the prison in Green Bay by 2029 and include many of the changes to the state prison system that Dem Gov. Tony Evers had proposed, the co-chairs said today.
Dem Gov. Tony Evers and legislative leaders announced they have reached an agreement to pump an additional $1.2 billion into K-12 education, child care and the UW System. The deal also includes a $1.5 billion tax cut package, adding two of the guv’s priorities to what the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee had already approved.
The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to begin its final push on the state budget with GOP legislative leaders hoping to finish work on the document by the end of next week.
Wisconsin voters still had a net positive view of Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ job performance even as a majority oppose him running for a third term in 2026, according to a new Marquette University Law School Poll.
The court offered no comment on its decision, though it rejected a similar request in early 2024 after throwing out the legislative lines that had been used for the 2022 elections.
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court today ruled Dem Gov. Tony Evers exceeded his authority by partially vetoing a bill in a literacy package even though it didn’t include an appropriation.
Speaking at a WisPolitics luncheon in Madison Tuesday, Kaul also slammed changes that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made to the way vaccines are approved.
In addition to what’s happening at the federal level, Mnookin’s communication comes as work on the budget has hit an impasse in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
The state Dem Party has used a form of ranked-choice voting since 2019. But today will be the first time the system is fully utilized, because there have been no more than two candidates for an office since it was implemented.
Activists at the Dem state convention today will vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
Whoever emerges from Sunday’s vote will follow one of the more successful chairs in party history. Along with a strong record at the ballot box — Dems have won 10 of 13 statewide contested elections since Ben Wikler became chair in June 2019 — the party has raised an astounding $206 million under his watch.
“The great unfinished task is to win the legislative majorities and be able to deliver the change in people’s lives that Democrats have been fighting for this entire time,” Wikler said in a new WisPolitics interview in advance of Dems’ state convention this week in Wisconsin Dells.
Wisconsin’s GOP members of Congress want the chance to urge the state Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the state’s House districts rather than moving forward with a novel approach to hear such lawsuits.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley, who told WisPolitics in April she planned to seek reelection next year, raised nothing for her campaign over the first half of 2025, according to a new filing.
In the initial ad of the campaign, Berrien likens himself to Donald Trump, saying he’s an outsider and a businessman.
The former Madison clerk showed an “astonishing” lack of urgency after discovering 193 absentee ballots that hadn’t been included in the city’s November tally and failed to follow the law in how they were handled, according to a draft Elections Commission report.
A progressive law firm has filed suit in Dane County seeking to overturn Wisconsin’s congressional map, arguing it is an “anti-competitive gerrymander” that is an “affront” to the state Constitution.
A split state Supreme Court today overturned the Legislature’s power to suspend administrative rules, ending decades of lawmakers having the power to at least temporarily block agency regulations.
Gov. Tony Evers early this morning signed a $111.1 billion budget less than an hour after it cleared the full Legislature as he and lawmakers raced to complete the document before Congress signed off on the reconciliation bill.
That’s because a provision in that federal bill would block a plan in the state budget to increase a hospital assessment to generate additional federal revenue that would then largely be sent back to hospitals.
Writing for the majority in a 4-3 ruling, liberal Justice Rebecca Dallet found changes the state has made to abortion laws over the past 50 years implicitly repealed the 1849 law.
The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee plans to approve a $2.5 billion capital budget that would close the prison in Green Bay by 2029 and include many of the changes to the state prison system that Dem Gov. Tony Evers had proposed, the co-chairs said today.
Dem Gov. Tony Evers and legislative leaders announced they have reached an agreement to pump an additional $1.2 billion into K-12 education, child care and the UW System. The deal also includes a $1.5 billion tax cut package, adding two of the guv’s priorities to what the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee had already approved.
The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to begin its final push on the state budget with GOP legislative leaders hoping to finish work on the document by the end of next week.
Wisconsin voters still had a net positive view of Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ job performance even as a majority oppose him running for a third term in 2026, according to a new Marquette University Law School Poll.
The court offered no comment on its decision, though it rejected a similar request in early 2024 after throwing out the legislative lines that had been used for the 2022 elections.
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court today ruled Dem Gov. Tony Evers exceeded his authority by partially vetoing a bill in a literacy package even though it didn’t include an appropriation.
Speaking at a WisPolitics luncheon in Madison Tuesday, Kaul also slammed changes that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made to the way vaccines are approved.
In addition to what’s happening at the federal level, Mnookin’s communication comes as work on the budget has hit an impasse in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
The state Dem Party has used a form of ranked-choice voting since 2019. But today will be the first time the system is fully utilized, because there have been no more than two candidates for an office since it was implemented.
Activists at the Dem state convention today will vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
Whoever emerges from Sunday’s vote will follow one of the more successful chairs in party history. Along with a strong record at the ballot box — Dems have won 10 of 13 statewide contested elections since Ben Wikler became chair in June 2019 — the party has raised an astounding $206 million under his watch.
“The great unfinished task is to win the legislative majorities and be able to deliver the change in people’s lives that Democrats have been fighting for this entire time,” Wikler said in a new WisPolitics interview in advance of Dems’ state convention this week in Wisconsin Dells.