Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy: Join legal challenge to congressional maps, citing threat to civic engagement and economic stability

Today, Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy, a nonpartisan coalition of business leaders, joined a motion to intervene in Bothfeld v. Wisconsin Elections Commission which challenges the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s congressional districts on the grounds that it undermines electoral competitiveness and weakens democratic accountability. The legal… Please log in to

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FRI News Summary: Trump administration charges Elections Commission with violating federal election law related to complaint procedures

TOP STORIES Trump administration accuses Wisconsin of violating federal election law… latest letter from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division accused [WEC] of violating [HAVA] for not having a state-based administrative complaint procedure to address alleged violations … “have left complainants alleging HAVA violations by the Commission without any recourse,”

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Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy: Join legal challenge to congressional maps, citing threat to civic engagement and economic stability

Today, Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy, a nonpartisan coalition of business leaders, joined a motion to intervene in Bothfeld v. Wisconsin Elections Commission which challenges the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s congressional districts on the grounds that it undermines electoral competitiveness and weakens democratic accountability. The legal… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, please

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Rep. Fitzgerald: Commemorates gun violence awareness day

MADISON ­– Today marks Gun Violence Awareness Day in the United States, the nationally recognized movement that honors 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was fatally shot by a stray bullet on a playground in Chicago in 2013. Each year, on the first Friday of June, advocates from across the country honor

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Law Forward: Business leaders and voters move to intervene in lawsuit challenging Wisconsin congressional districting map

Contact: media@lawforward.org New Motion Filed by Law Forward and Co-Counsel Argues that Congressional Map Is an Extreme Outlier, Stifling Electoral Competition and Silencing Voters MADISON, Wis. – Today, Law Forward, along with co-counsel Stafford Rosenbaum LLP and the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School, filed a motion to intervene in

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Rep. Rivera-Wagner: Celebrates historic agreement to relocate coal piles as a generational victory for Green Bay

GREEN BAY, WI – Today, Representative Amaad Rivera-Wagner (D–Green Bay) issued the following statement celebrating the passage of a historic agreement to relocate the coal piles from Green Bay’s waterfront—an achievement decades in the making, and powered by the persistent voices of Green Bay residents. “This is a once-in-a-generation victory—and it

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