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Wisconsin Supreme court slows down the mail in ballot

4-3. Isn't that the state where a conservative SJC lost his election. He recused from cases and then un-recused. I guess so he can do damage on the way out.

I guess there is no way they will do the right thing and extend the deadline by the same amount of days it takes for the ruling?
 
HomerJS said:
4-3. Isn't that the state where a conservative SJC lost his election. He recused from cases and then un-recused. I guess so he can do damage on the way out.

I guess there is no way they will do the right thing and extend the deadline by the same amount of days it takes for the ruling?
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Yeap. That's my state!
 
As a former resident of WI and someone who worked within that legal system, all I can say is that it is a shame how partisan and therefore implicitly corrupt that system has become. From the GOP changing the rules and limiting the governor's power-during a lame duck session where they lost the governorship, to a lame duck Supreme Court unreclusing himself in a critical case because he lost the election, to the rampart gerrymandering, the intensive restriction of minority voting, etc., they are a poster child for how rapidly a very good state can dive to the bottom as quickly as possible.

Hopefully the US voters in general will stop the rot at the federal level this time around.

Edit: I guess these legal scholars decided to avoid the main legal finding of Gore v. Bush-that's it is too late for the(US Supreme Court) to interfere in electoral matters. Same result there, a 5-4 vote against the Dems. We are rapidly devolving from what was the ultimate strength of the USA-that we were ruled by laws, not by the whims of man.
 
Thump553 said:
As a former resident of WI and someone who worked within that legal system, all I can say is that it is a shame how partisan and therefore implicitly corrupt that system has become. From the GOP changing the rules and limiting the governor's power-during a lame duck session where they lost the governorship, to a lame duck Supreme Court unreclusing himself in a critical case because he lost the election, to the rampart gerrymandering, the intensive restriction of minority voting, etc., they are a poster child for how rapidly a very good state can dive to the bottom as quickly as possible.

Hopefully the US voters in general will stop the rot at the federal level this time around.
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Damn, I could not have said that better myself. I'll probably be stealing that for other places I post. *sigh*
 
I fucking hate my state government (mainly the legislature but the Supreme Court has obviously got some partisan hack shills on the bench as well).

Feels like anytime there's an inch of progress here, the pubs roll it back a few feet for good measure.
 
Haha f**k you Wisconsin! Vote by mail has effectively been killed! If you didn't get covid in the primaries, you now get a second go at it!

Yeah, it sucks, but how else should I react? Wisconsin did this to themselves. Maybe, just maybe, think about who you allow to appoint justices to your state Supreme Court, or demand the right to vote them in yourselves with a ballot initiative.
 
UNCjigga said:
Haha f**k you Wisconsin! Vote by mail has effectively been killed! If you didn't get covid in the primaries, you now get a second go at it!

Yeah, it sucks, but how else should I react? Wisconsin did this to themselves. Maybe, just maybe, think about who you allow to appoint justices to your state Supreme Court, or demand the right to vote them in yourselves with a ballot initiative.
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You need to learn a little history here - one of the SCJs is a lame duck and conservative and is being replaced by a progressive judge. He initially recused himself from votes but then realized that he could be part of a scorched Earth on his way out so un-recused himself. Which way do you think he voted on this matter?
 
Homerboy said:
You need to learn a little history here - one of the SCJs is a lame duck and conservative and is being replaced by a progressive judge. He initially recused himself from votes but then realized that he could be part of a scorched Earth on his way out so un-recused himself. Which way do you think he voted on this matter?
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I thought he was already gone?
 
UNCjigga said:
I thought he was already gone?
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Oh yeah - you're probably right. I'm sorry, I literally just found out my son's roommate tested positive for COVID at college so I have a lot of texts and messages flying around and I'm not all that focused 🙂
 
Well I enjoy pointing and laughing at states like Kansas, Georgia and Wisconsin when they get dicked over by the people they elect. Makes me feel better about the misery the NC leg has put us through over the last decade. Schadenfreude and all that.
 
As an ideology gone awry and currently fading off into self-imposed irrelevancy due to the party's penchant for purifying itself into a party of racists, religious political activist zealots and isolationists among other detestable divisive habits of theirs, the party has found itself having to rely on underhanded fascist ploys in order to keep what they don't deserve: a legitimate say in how our nation evolves into a more perfect union.
 
tweaker2 said:
As an ideology gone awry and currently fading off into self-imposed irrelevancy due to the party's penchant for purifying itself into a party of racists, religious political activist zealots and isolationists among other detestable divisive habits of theirs, the party has found itself having to rely on underhanded fascist ploys in order to keep what they don't deserve: a legitimate say in how our nation evolves into a more perfect union.
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Amen.
 
An update - Wisconsin Supreme Court allows ballots to move forward without Green Party:
madison.com

Wisconsin Supreme Court denies Green Party presidential candidate ballot access

The decision clears the way for local clerks to begin sending out absentee ballots.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday denied the Green Party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates ballot access, clearing the way for municipal clerks to begin sending absentee ballots to voters.
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In the 4-3 unsigned decision, the court ruled it was simply too late into election season to grant any relief. Conservative-backed justices Patience Roggensack, Annette Ziegler and Rebecca Bradley dissented.
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