Wisconsin GOP weighs moves to sideline elections chief and liberal Supreme Court majority
Wisconsin GOP weighs moves to sideline elections chief and liberal Supreme Court majority | CNN Politics
Same thing they did with the governor's powers when a democrat beat Scott Walker. These people don't give a fuck about what the people of Wisconsin want. Every time they lose an election, they subvert democracy to retain power over the people who keep trying to take it away from them at the ballot box.
I’m not saying democracy is dead. But is is definitely not alive and well.
Democracy coded a long time ago. It's been legally dead for a while. We hooked up to life support and are forcing fluids through it with pumps though, so the constituent cells are all still maintaining life functions, and if closely inspected appear fine.
What's that quote about conservatives abandoning democracy when it fails them?
At the top of the thread ;)
Believe them when they say there will be a civil war.
Conservatives started one Civil War already, but do they really think anyone is going to support another war based on racism, bigotry, and xenophobia? I could see conservatives continuing their war on democracy through terrorism as they have been doing for thirty years but no more than that. I don't believe Americans would tolerate anything more.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
However, due in part to what experts have called one of the nation’s most extreme partisan gerrymanders, Republicans have maintained a foothold in the state legislature, with massive Senate and Assembly majorities.
Wisconsin state Sen. Dan Knodl, whose April special election victory gave Republicans their Senate supermajority, told Milwaukee’s CBS 58 he would support impeaching Protasiewicz if she does not recuse herself on redistricting cases.
Besides reducing the chief justice’s powers, the liberal majority voted to open administrative meetings to the public and fired a conservative former judge who had overseen the state’s court system for six years.
Michael Gableman, the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who was hired by Vos to review the state’s 2020 election, has frequently targeted Wolfe, including mocking the way she dressed.
By doing nothing, under the state high court’s previous ruling, the Wisconsin Election Commission believed it could keep Wolfe on in her current role without requiring Senate confirmation.
Still, the state Senate’s elections committee, chaired by Knodl, moved forward with a hearing Tuesday, beginning the process of considering Wolfe’s confirmation and potentially triggering a court fight.
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"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy." - David Frum