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Jan 14, 2024
News take: Most proposed maps better for Democrats than existing districts
Because the Legislature, U.S. Supreme Court, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court ensured that the existing maps ensured Republican dominance...
Jan 14, 2024
News take: SCOW gets proposed redistricting maps
"Mine is the best!" they all say. More at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Dec 29, 2023
Gotta love the headline
"Wisconsin Prepares to Crush a Slithering Republican Gerrymander," The Nation proclaims. From the story: The rigging of the Wisconsin...
Dec 23, 2023
A roundup of news about SCOW's 4-3 decision ordering new legislative maps
Justice Jill Karofsky wrote the majority opinion. She was joined by Justices Rebecca Dallett, Janet Protasiewicz, and Ann Walsh Bradley....
Dec 21, 2023
Petition for Review in brief: A drug death, circumstantial evidence, and a guilty verdict
"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full. These "in...
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Dec 11, 2023
WMC sees awful, terrible things happening if state's Amazon gig drivers are classified as employees
WMC is one of two parties filing amicus briefs in this case. I will post on Legal Action of Wisconsin's brief soon. The educational...
Dec 4, 2023
Brad Schimel announces for SCOW
From AP, via Daily Kos: Schimel has been outspoken on abortion and some other political issues that are almost certain to get more...
Nov 26, 2023
The 2025 SCOW campaign is starting
Looks like right-wing Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel is in and will challenge Justice Ann Walsh Bradley.
Nov 25, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part six: And, finally, there were three more
I couldn't let the curtain fall on the plus-sized legal cast in the Rebecca Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission case without...
Nov 22, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part 5: Another six reporting for intervening petitioners
Good thing the SCOW justices set some ground rules. If all the lawyers on the docket took their turns at the state Supreme Court podium,...
Nov 21, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part 4: The Evers seven
Gov. Tony Evers, favoring new legislative maps, is bringing seven lawyers to the Rebecca Clarke case argued today before the state...
Nov 20, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part 3: 11 for the Legislature to intervene
The Legislature has hired enough lawyers to field a full baseball lineup plus two relievers to represent it in the Rebecca Clarke...
Nov 19, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part 2: in this corner, representing the respondents...
All of the respondents in the Rebecca Clarke redistricting lawsuit are named in their official capacities and not necessarily because the...
Nov 18, 2023
Evers, Vos don't want school voucher lawsuit to start at SCOW
Who thought Gov. Tony Evers and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos could agree on something like this? They argue that the case should start in...
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