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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 11, 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...
Dec 4, 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 25, 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 22, 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 21, 2023
Republican legislators seek to set age limits for state judges
No one 75 or older could be elected or appointed, under the bill by Rep. Nik Rettinger (R-Mukwonago) and Sen. Cory Tomczyk (R-Mosinee)....
Nov 19, 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...
Nov 18, 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 16, 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 15, 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 14, 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...
Nov 10, 2023
Roggensack ordered to turn over impeachment records
Former SCOW Justice Patience Roggensack ordered to cough 'em up. Not so sure about the reasoning here unless the records are sent to...
Nov 10, 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...
Nov 1, 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
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...
Oct 18, 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...
Oct 12, 2023
A second former SCOW justices says Protasiewicz should not be impeached
Former Justice Jon Wilcox says it out loud, after former Justice David Prosser did. Still waiting for former Justice Patience Roggensack,...
Oct 12, 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 11, 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...
Oct 10, 2023
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