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Oct 10, 2024
Take on a News Take: Evers crossed the line with veto
If the governor thought a more progressive Supreme Court would do his bidding, he was wrong.
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Sep 11, 2024
News take: the arguments in the big SCOW election cases
“It sounds to me like what you are trying to do is to introduce the fear that there is some sort of illegitimacy going on in the election."
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Jul 14, 2024
The Supreme Court drops some big decisions
Catching up after time off, during which the Supreme Court dropped a couple big decisions. So if you, like me, were not engrossed in...
Jun 27, 2024
News take: Injunction against abortion protester violated First Amendment right, SCOW rules
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an order barring an anti-abortion protester from coming close to a...
May 1, 2024
News take: State Supreme Court rules against single-parent adoptions
Because the potential of losing both parental figures when one dies promotes stability. What chance will a non-legally recognized parent...
Apr 17, 2024
News take: SCOW hears arguments on amazing reach of legislative committee power
Gov. Evers' challenge to a few legislators' ability to permanently hold up spending was heard today at the state Supreme Court. The JS...
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Apr 12, 2024
Well. Crap.
And I even had the slogan for my t-shirt. SCOW Justice Ann Walsh Bradley announced she would retire and not seek re-election. Now what?...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: appeals court says graphic warnings on cigarette packs are legal
From Reuters: Reversing a lower court ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found that the 11 warnings required...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Jim Troupis advising on judicial conduct?! Say it ain't so!
The state Supreme Court's conservatives reappointed him in March 2023, when they ran things. The Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee was...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Biden nomination of Muslim-American to be on appeals court in peril
Two Democratic senators say they will not support Adeel Mangi. From NBC: Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Are conservative justices getting impatient with the Fifth District?
Are conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices getting impatient with some of the shenanigans of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals? From...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Justice Janet on the case. And stays there.
Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz defies right-wing legal firm, refuses to recuse herself from mobile voting van case. The...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Enbridge looks for a friendlier venue in pipeline fight
Enbridge Inc. wants to move the fight over 70-year-old Line 5, which passes through the northern part of the state and Michigan's Upper...
Mar 15, 2024
News take: SCOW rules against Catholic Charities in unemployment insurance case
The 4-3 ruling said charities operated by the Catholic Diocese in Superior is not exempt from unemployment insurance payments. The lawyer...
Mar 13, 2024
News take: SCOW to hear absentee ballot box ban case
Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley is angry again in dissent. She is often quite mad. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the story.
Mar 11, 2024
News take: The right to privacy
It is tattered but still a target. More at Vox. At least one judge, moreover, has already weaponized the right to privacy to undermine...
Mar 8, 2024
News take: Appellate court rules in favor of pollutants
Two of the state's most conservative appellate judges, Shelley Grogan and Maria Lazar. sitting on the most state's conservative...
Feb 3, 2024
News take: SCOW consultants call out Republican gerrymandered maps
The Republicans argued that the the political geography of the state favors them because Democrats are concentrated in large cities. From...
Feb 3, 2024
News take: SCOW says Dean Phillips will be on the ballot
From NBC: The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Rep. Dean Phillips will be on the Democratic primary ballot, saying he meets...
Feb 3, 2024
News take: SCOW accepts another original jurisdiction case
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel brings the story. MADISON — The state Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge from Democratic...
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