The GOP Hypocrisy of 2016 vs. 2018

Early in 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away unexpectedly. As would be expected, President Barack Obama nominated a qualified jurist, Judge Merrick Garland, to replace Scalia on the court. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasn’t having any of that. Saying that the voters should have input on…

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Walker Is Busy Busy Busy For A Lame Duck

Gotta work on that legacy! You know the one! The one that subverts the will of the people…all those good voters who wisely elected Tony Evers over Governor Scott Walker. So Wednesday, Governor Walker appointed two more judges to vacant Milwaukee County Circuit Court judgeships. Apparently he doesn’t hold the…

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Wisconsin GOP Revisits Voter Suppression Tactics That the Courts Already Nixed.

As we have been waiting for the GOP majority in the Wisconsin legislature reveal the various nefarious bills they plan to enact during their December 2018 lame duck session…from curtailing the new Democratic governor’s power to additional tax breaks for the rich…to moving the 2020 Presidential Primary to protect a…

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Topic of the Week: Lame Ducks

There’s been a lot of talk about the actions of both the lame duck Congress in Washington D.C. and the lame duck session of the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly, from Congress’ push to extend the Bush tax cuts to the legislature’s push to get state employee union contracts approved….

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