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Jan 15, 2024
News take: Complaint filed by former courts director against four SCOW justices dismissed
Let's not forget that former courts official Randy Koshnick violated confidentiality provisions of the rules governing such things when...
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 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...
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 16, 2023
There are a bunch of lawyers involved in the Rebecca Clarke redistricting
Forty-nine! That's how many lawyers are listed on the docket sheet for the challenge to the state's gerrymandered political districts....
Nov 15, 2023
SCOTUS justices push election injustices
As the Wisconsin Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in the Rebecca Clarke redistricting case next week, a little sad news about the...
Nov 14, 2023
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel eyeing 2025 SCOW bid
A source with knowledge of the former AG’s thinking says Schimel has been traveling the circuit in recent months with an eye toward a...
Nov 10, 2023
Pennsylvania's record Supreme Court race spending doesn't touch Wisconsin's
There was about $22 million in spending. Pikers. The total spent is likely to be roughly half of what was spent in Wisconsin — a race...
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Nov 1, 2023
Evers sues Republican legislators
The Legislature's self-granted veto power over the Evers administration's ability to implement state law violates the Wisconsin...
Oct 24, 2023
Sketchy Leonard Leo had his dirty fingers deep in SCOW elections
ProPublica reports: The high court, determining the prosecutors had overreached, ordered the investigation’s documents destroyed. But not...
Oct 24, 2023
Republicans file motion to dismiss redistricting case to preserve arguments
The Republican legislators seeking to keep their electoral advantage by maintaining the state's gerrymandered political maps asked the...
Oct 24, 2023
Kenosha County judge denied a defendant's right to be in court, appeal argues
A Kenosha County judge held a felony plea hearing on Zoom without ever telling the defendant he had the right to appear in person,...
Oct 18, 2023
Robin Vos trots out new Protasiewicz threat
From Isthmus: Responding, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos vowed, “We think the United States Supreme Court precedent compels her recusal, and...
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Oct 12, 2023
Two reasons a six-member SCOW is a bad idea
The first is State v. Morris V. Seaton; the second is State v. Donte Quintell McBride. Seaton challenged the state's ability to introduce...
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Oct 11, 2023
Protasiewicz's destruction of Republican recusal demands - Part 3
Having destroyed the first two arguments Republicans in the state Legislature made in their demand that Justice Janet Protasiewiz recuse...
Oct 10, 2023
The Protasiewicz takedown of Legislature's recusal nonsense - part 2
Below is a bit more of SCOW Justice Janet Protasiewicz's excellent order declining to recuse herself from participating in redistricting...
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Oct 9, 2023
Janet Protasiewicz's brilliant takedown of recusal demands - Part 1
There is so much to admire in Justice Janet Protasiewicz's Friday order declining to recuse herself from redistricting litigation that...
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