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What we need to do is fix our broken Wisconsin Supreme Court. Big-money special interests have taken over. Justices refuse to recuse themselves even when their donors — who’ve given massive amounts of money — want the court to rule a certain way. They’ve even closed administrative meetings so they can do more of their business out of the public’s view.
Judges are not legislators, nor are we executives. Our job as judges is to interpret and apply the law, based not on our personal or political beliefs, but by relying on statutes and the Constitution. Simply put, our job is to be arbiters of the law, not policy analysts or political activists.
Liberals who want to legislate from the Wisconsin Supreme Court hope to advance that agenda at the April 4 general election. They’ll get their wish even sooner if conservatives don’t get off their butts on February 20.
Big money can now pollute Wisconsin Supreme Court races more than ever before thanks to the GOP-dominated legislature, which recklessly rewrote our campaign finance law in 2015.
Waves usually just influence congressional seats. But a look at past wave elections tells a different story.
The unfortunate answer to why Walker is paying billions to create jobs we can’t fill is that Foxconn is a very costly campaign stunt.
There’s something scarily defective about Republicans who win perk-and-privilege elections so quickly wielding their power against those with the least – – even limiting the food the poor can eat.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s announced Republican challengers have, so far, run ridiculous campaigns that suggest they are more interested in currying favor with national political operatives than representing Wisconsinites.
Wisconsin instead picks winners and losers. How is that working?
Will Flanders, the research director for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, joins Editor James Wigderson on this week’s episode of RightWisconsin Conversations.
Walker’s allies on the Wisconsin Supreme Court continue to implement the governor’s anti-labor agenda.
Republican State Senator David Craig is circulating a proposal to empower a joint committee of the legislature to investigate the old Government Accountability Board.
The bill would allow the sale of prescription drugs for less than cost, just like in many other states. It should be fascinating to see the usual suspects who are opposed to any tampering with the misnamed Unfair Sales Act testify in favor of charging higher drug prices to Wisconsin consumers for their own good.
State voters rarely elect a gubernatorial candidate whose party holds the presidency.
After my first year in office, I have learned there is one constant you can always count on: Scott Walker will always choose to divide us rather than unite us.
In January, the state Public Service Commission asked investor-owned utilities to submit plans explaining how they were going to implement the federal tax bill’s changes “for the benefit of ratepayers.” Unfortunately, those plans don’t give customers enough.
Foxconn is buying a seven-story building in downtown Milwaukee from Northwestern Mutual, Wisconsin’s 161-year-old insurance giant. It will be the company’s North American headquarters and a center for activities outside its planned manufacturing plant in Racine County.
It’s beginning to look like the general, who retired from the military in mid-2016, is having too much of Donald Trump rub off on him in his role as Trump’s chief of staff.
His latest report dismissed even by conservative media.
Legislature faces a rush of many proposed bills. Which will pass?
What we need to do is fix our broken Wisconsin Supreme Court. Big-money special interests have taken over. Justices refuse to recuse themselves even when their donors — who’ve given massive amounts of money — want the court to rule a certain way. They’ve even closed administrative meetings so they can do more of their business out of the public’s view.
Judges are not legislators, nor are we executives. Our job as judges is to interpret and apply the law, based not on our personal or political beliefs, but by relying on statutes and the Constitution. Simply put, our job is to be arbiters of the law, not policy analysts or political activists.
Liberals who want to legislate from the Wisconsin Supreme Court hope to advance that agenda at the April 4 general election. They’ll get their wish even sooner if conservatives don’t get off their butts on February 20.
Big money can now pollute Wisconsin Supreme Court races more than ever before thanks to the GOP-dominated legislature, which recklessly rewrote our campaign finance law in 2015.
Waves usually just influence congressional seats. But a look at past wave elections tells a different story.
The unfortunate answer to why Walker is paying billions to create jobs we can’t fill is that Foxconn is a very costly campaign stunt.
There’s something scarily defective about Republicans who win perk-and-privilege elections so quickly wielding their power against those with the least – – even limiting the food the poor can eat.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s announced Republican challengers have, so far, run ridiculous campaigns that suggest they are more interested in currying favor with national political operatives than representing Wisconsinites.
Wisconsin instead picks winners and losers. How is that working?
Will Flanders, the research director for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, joins Editor James Wigderson on this week’s episode of RightWisconsin Conversations.
Walker’s allies on the Wisconsin Supreme Court continue to implement the governor’s anti-labor agenda.
Republican State Senator David Craig is circulating a proposal to empower a joint committee of the legislature to investigate the old Government Accountability Board.
The bill would allow the sale of prescription drugs for less than cost, just like in many other states. It should be fascinating to see the usual suspects who are opposed to any tampering with the misnamed Unfair Sales Act testify in favor of charging higher drug prices to Wisconsin consumers for their own good.
State voters rarely elect a gubernatorial candidate whose party holds the presidency.
After my first year in office, I have learned there is one constant you can always count on: Scott Walker will always choose to divide us rather than unite us.
In January, the state Public Service Commission asked investor-owned utilities to submit plans explaining how they were going to implement the federal tax bill’s changes “for the benefit of ratepayers.” Unfortunately, those plans don’t give customers enough.
Foxconn is buying a seven-story building in downtown Milwaukee from Northwestern Mutual, Wisconsin’s 161-year-old insurance giant. It will be the company’s North American headquarters and a center for activities outside its planned manufacturing plant in Racine County.
It’s beginning to look like the general, who retired from the military in mid-2016, is having too much of Donald Trump rub off on him in his role as Trump’s chief of staff.
His latest report dismissed even by conservative media.
Legislature faces a rush of many proposed bills. Which will pass?