Wisconsin State Supreme Court Election

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Anonymous wrote:Is there no outrage in WI? Or elsewhere (except here on this thread)? I'm not hearing alot about this situation. . . . and it's quite shocking that I'm not.

This is undemocratic. Fascist, even.

How does this end? And how can ANY court or legislature sanction this blatant power grab?

There’s plenty of outrage here. And in Wisconsin. Set up a regular donation to the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Ben Wikler is doing great things there.

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Anonymous wrote:And now the gerrymandered legislature is going to impeach the Supreme Court Justice who won in a landslide saying she’s going to strike down their gerrymander.

Aren’t Wisconsin voters going to be angry about this? She just got elected right?

That's the beauty of it. The legislators have made it impossible for the voters to remove them.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court probably needs to get ahead of this by declaring all of the current legislators unlawfully elected, redrawing the maps, and ordering immediate new elections. Two can play hardball.

Except the court is fractured. Republicans on the court are supporting the legislature

But democrats have the majority on the court so they can outvote the republicans.

Not if the veto-proof supermajority legislature impeaches every liberal on the court.

And if the new justice resigns, the Democratic governor can appoint another Democrat but then that person would have to run statewide to keep their seat in April 2024 concurrent with the Republican presidential primary, and with the resulting Republican turnout it would be difficult to keep the seat then.

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Anonymous wrote:And now the gerrymandered legislature is going to impeach the Supreme Court Justice who won in a landslide saying she’s going to strike down their gerrymander.

Aren’t Wisconsin voters going to be angry about this? She just got elected right?

That's the beauty of it. The legislators have made it impossible for the voters to remove them.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court probably needs to get ahead of this by declaring all of the current legislators unlawfully elected, redrawing the maps, and ordering immediate new elections. Two can play hardball.

Except the court is fractured. Republicans on the court are supporting the legislature

But democrats have the majority on the court so they can outvote the republicans.

Not if the veto-proof supermajority legislature impeaches every liberal on the court.

And if the new justice resigns, the Democratic governor can appoint another Democrat but then that person would have to run statewide to keep their seat in April 2024 concurrent with the Republican presidential primary, and with the resulting Republican turnout it would be difficult to keep the seat then.

No the new court could just over rule the state legislature impeachment and restate the current court or the existing court could rule the impeachment unconstitutional. The Wisconsin constitution say the following:

The Assembly may impeach an elected official by a majority vote based on specific reasons: corrupt conduct in office or for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor.

The legislature can not impeach for failure to recuse. The legislature would have to show corrupt conduct in office(she has not been in office) or commission of a crime. The republicans have not thought this out.

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They’re too busy planning this fake do over.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if people want to argue that she should recuse herself from hearing certain cases, have at it. But impeachment? No. That’s bonkers. The Wis. GOP is near death rattle stage. Gerrymandered maps are vastly inflating their legislative numbers. The key WOW county suburbs are trending blue. It’s a good hearted, left leaning state that is vastly more interesting than the DMV. It’s voters will do the left thing. They have had enough of the GOP.

Lol why you bringing a random insult of the DMV into a discussion of a dysfunctional state democracy?

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Anonymous wrote:Is there no outrage in WI? Or elsewhere (except here on this thread)? I'm not hearing alot about this situation. . . . and it's quite shocking that I'm not.

This is undemocratic. Fascist, even.

How does this end? And how can ANY court or legislature sanction this blatant power grab?

Outrage in Wisconsin confirmed.

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Wow! The GOP is just a bunch of unprincipled cheats.

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Vos is trying to claim the Wisconsin commission proposal is just like Iowa's. Except Iowa is subject to Supreme Court review, whereas the Vos proposal leaves the reidstricting solely within the gerrymandered state legislature.

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Anonymous wrote:Vos is trying to claim the Wisconsin commission proposal is just like Iowa's. Except Iowa is subject to Supreme Court review, whereas the Vos proposal leaves the reidstricting solely within the gerrymandered state legislature.

R's won't get away with this. Wis Dems are very strong. Prepared to get crushed in 2024 if you try this.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there no outrage in WI? Or elsewhere (except here on this thread)? I'm not hearing alot about this situation. . . . and it's quite shocking that I'm not.

This is undemocratic. Fascist, even.

How does this end? And how can ANY court or legislature sanction this blatant power grab?

Outrage in Wisconsin confirmed.

Thanks. I'm not on Twitter/"X" so not seeing this sort of thing anymore.

So what's the best guess for how this ends?

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The GOP: if you can’t win, cheat.

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The GOP: if you can’t win, cheat.

Cheat? Ha ha.
That is why Democrats want unattended drop boxes throughout the country. Now, THAT'S cheating.