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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.