Madison, WI – Today, Rep. Rachael Cabral-Guevara (R-Fox Crossing) introduced a resolution declaring January 24th, 2021 to January 30th, 2021 “School Choice Week.” Rep. Cabral-Guevara issued the following statement: “Since the school choice program first launched in 1990, it always had one goal: to give students the opportunity to be

Madison, WI – Today, Senator Dan Feyen (R-Fond du Lac), released the following statement on 2021 Senate Joint Resolution 3: “The vote I took today is not about masks. It is not Republicans being anti-science, it is about following state law and the state constitution. “The Governor’s emergency powers are vast, but

WEST POINT, WI – Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-West Point) released the following statement after Senate Republicans voted to strike down a lifesaving health protection. “As of yesterday 5,699 Wisconsinites have died from this pandemic, yet some Republicans Senators refuse to take COVID-19 seriously. Masks saves lives. At a time when

MADISON – Today, the Wisconsin State Assembly took up a bipartisan compromise COVID-19 proposal which would provide much needed resources to help Wisconsin combat the COVID-19 virus. The bipartisan compromise bill passed the Republican-controlled State Senate with near unanimous support and Democratic Governor Tony Evers has promised to sign it

WISCONSIN — Protect Our Care announced a new TV ad today praising President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The national cable ad, “Rescue” will start this week. The ad details the current coronavirus crisis left by Trump and the actions President Biden is trying to take to get the pandemic under

Madison, WI – In voting today to repeal the lone COVID mitigation measure they haven’t yet defeated in a partisan Supreme Court, the statewide mask mandate, Wisconsin Republicans have sent a message loud and clear to the people of Wisconsin: “Let them eat COVID.” After doing less than nothing to help

Madison – Today, the State Senate passed a joint resolution to revoke Executive Order #104 and declare it unlawful and terminated. By law, a governor’s authority to declare an emergency is limited to 60 days unless extended by the Legislature. An executive order declaring a state of emergency can be revoked

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi issued the following statement regarding today’s vote by the Wisconsin State Senate to end Wisconsin’s order on wearing masks: “After thousands of deaths, families living in sheer terror of losing loved ones, and mounting uncertainty over long term health consequences we may not know the

Madison, Wis. — Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly, the senior fellow in constitutional governance at IRG, congratulated lawmakers today after the Senate voted to support a joint resolution that would overturn Gov. Evers’ latest attempt to use unauthorized emergency powers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I commend the

MADISON – Today Senate Republicans passed Senate Joint Resolution 3, overturning Wisconsin’s mask requirement, which was in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Senator Jeff Smith (D – Brunswick) released the following statement in response: “Republicans eliminated our statewide COVID-19 prevention laws without a plan to effectively respond to

MADISON – Today, the Wisconsin State Assembly passed an amended version of Assembly Bill 1, with Assembly Republicans adding additional amendments with provisions that had been removed from the version of the bill that had passed the Wisconsin State Senate with bipartisan support earlier this month. Representative Robyn Vining (D-Wauwatosa)

Madison, WI – Senator Howard Marklein (R-Spring Green) made the following statement following the Senate’s passage of Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 3, which ends the COVID-19 public health emergency, including all emergency orders and actions taken pursuant to the declaration of the public health emergency. “I voted for SJR 3

MADISON– Senator Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay) released the following statement after voting against 2021 Senate Joint Resolution 3 which, pending Assembly concurrence, halts the Governor’s Public Health Emergency: “Greg Abbott, Charlie Baker, Doug Burgum, Spencer Cox, Mike DeWine, Mark Gordon, Gary Herbert, Larry Hogan, Eric Holcomb, Asa Hutchinson, Kay Ivey,

Madison, WI- On Tuesday afternoon, the Wisconsin State Senate voted on a resolution to overturn Executive Order #104, Governor Evers’ fourth unlawful extension of his March 12, 2020 COVID-19 public emergency order. Senator Mary Felzkowski (R-Tomahawk) voted in favor of the resolution: “Today I took a vote to strike down an

Madison, WI – Today state Sen. Duey Stroebel (R-Saukville) joined a majority of his colleagues in voting in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 3, which ends Gov. Tony Evers’ endless string of COVID-19 emergency orders. The resolution must pass the Assembly before it takes effect. “It is not okay, or

Madison – The Co-Chairs of the Joint Committee on Finance (JFC), State Representative Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam) and State Senator Howard Marklein (R-Spring Green), released the following statement after the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) released general fund revenue and expenditure projections. “Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and government-mandated shut downs, the

CONTACT: Alyssa Mauk, ACLU of Wisconsin communications director, amauk@aclu-wi.org WAUKESHA COUNTY – The ACLU of Wisconsin today criticized the hiring of Joseph Mensah as a Waukesha County sheriff’s deputy. Mensah resigned from the Wauwatosa Police Department after he fatally shot three people while on duty in the span of five