
Steven Walters: New court majority changes target Chief Justice Ziegler
Is it revenge for conservatives’ past overthrow of Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson?
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Is it revenge for conservatives’ past overthrow of Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson?
With Janet Protasiewicz now joining three other Justices to comprise a fair-minded majority, they will “return this court to the national reputation it once enjoyed.”
Just days after circumventing Wisconsin Supreme Court rules to fire the director of the state court system, the court’s new liberal majority took the unprecedented step of stripping Chief Justice Annette Ziegler of her power to administer court business, which most significantly includes determining which cases are taken up in what order.
Political parties, big money have ruined people’s confidence in justices.
Let’s reaffirm our confidence in the will of the American people so it reflects the bold confidence of our Founding Fathers as they faced an uncertain future with all the limitations of their 18th century worldview.
The next 15 months will tell.
Barring the former President from the ballot—or offering him a plea deal in exchange for dropping out of the race—are both very bad ideas.
If the Paul Ryans of the conservative world want to make a compelling case against Trump, it can’t be that he’s unelectable. It’s that he’s irredeemable.
We hope that our national dialogue – driven by the candidates who will visit our state – will focus on the future direction of our nation rather than relitigate November 2020.
Let’s look back 20 years at a Wisconsin-born exercise, born at a time when people seemed more open to collaboration, for what can happen when ideas are raised, debated and put into action. That exercise was the Wisconsin Economic Summits.
By closing the funding gap, Wisconsin can be a leader once again without reinventing the wheel.
When companies use their market power to make moral rules, whether by their own choice or at the demands of liberal activists, they not only harm investor returns, but disenfranchise citizens from having their say through their elected officials.
“Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee” by Patrick Jones gives a detailed history of the racial segregation in the city of Milwaukee and the struggle against housing discrimination.
Socialism makes sense in theory, so why does it always fail in practice?
The public deserves prompt access to information on disciplinary cases.
Participatory approaches turn adultism on its head by including youth in decision making with adults.
Whether he is convicted or not, legal scholars and historians argue that Trump’s insurrectionist actions meet the disqualification standard outlined in the 14th Amendment.
Trump ignored the will of most voters and sought to block the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden.
Former state GOP Chair Andrew Hitt told the House Jan. 6 Committee that after official election results confirmed Biden had won Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes, Johnson spoke to him about having the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature override the will of the voters and name the state’s presidential electors.
Last week, President Biden signed an Executive Order to implement historic, bipartisan military justice reforms that significantly strengthen how the military handles sexual assault cases.
Is it revenge for conservatives’ past overthrow of Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson?
With Janet Protasiewicz now joining three other Justices to comprise a fair-minded majority, they will “return this court to the national reputation it once enjoyed.”
Just days after circumventing Wisconsin Supreme Court rules to fire the director of the state court system, the court’s new liberal majority took the unprecedented step of stripping Chief Justice Annette Ziegler of her power to administer court business, which most significantly includes determining which cases are taken up in what order.
Political parties, big money have ruined people’s confidence in justices.
Let’s reaffirm our confidence in the will of the American people so it reflects the bold confidence of our Founding Fathers as they faced an uncertain future with all the limitations of their 18th century worldview.
The next 15 months will tell.
Barring the former President from the ballot—or offering him a plea deal in exchange for dropping out of the race—are both very bad ideas.
If the Paul Ryans of the conservative world want to make a compelling case against Trump, it can’t be that he’s unelectable. It’s that he’s irredeemable.
We hope that our national dialogue – driven by the candidates who will visit our state – will focus on the future direction of our nation rather than relitigate November 2020.
Let’s look back 20 years at a Wisconsin-born exercise, born at a time when people seemed more open to collaboration, for what can happen when ideas are raised, debated and put into action. That exercise was the Wisconsin Economic Summits.
By closing the funding gap, Wisconsin can be a leader once again without reinventing the wheel.
When companies use their market power to make moral rules, whether by their own choice or at the demands of liberal activists, they not only harm investor returns, but disenfranchise citizens from having their say through their elected officials.
“Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee” by Patrick Jones gives a detailed history of the racial segregation in the city of Milwaukee and the struggle against housing discrimination.
Socialism makes sense in theory, so why does it always fail in practice?
The public deserves prompt access to information on disciplinary cases.
Participatory approaches turn adultism on its head by including youth in decision making with adults.
Whether he is convicted or not, legal scholars and historians argue that Trump’s insurrectionist actions meet the disqualification standard outlined in the 14th Amendment.
Trump ignored the will of most voters and sought to block the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden.
Former state GOP Chair Andrew Hitt told the House Jan. 6 Committee that after official election results confirmed Biden had won Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes, Johnson spoke to him about having the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature override the will of the voters and name the state’s presidential electors.
Last week, President Biden signed an Executive Order to implement historic, bipartisan military justice reforms that significantly strengthen how the military handles sexual assault cases.