Bill designed to reduce the powers of incoming governor-elect Tony Evers. Critics have called the move a threat to democracy.

The Wisconsin Republican-controlled state senate voted just before sunrise on Wednesday, following an all-night session, to pass a sweeping bill in a lame-duck session designed to weaken the Democrat replacing Republican Governor Scott Walker.

Republicans pushed on through protests, internal disagreement and Democratic opposition to the measures designed to reduce the powers of incoming Democratic Governor-elect Tony Evers and the incoming attorney general, Josh Kaul, also a Democrat replacing a Republican. Critics have called the move a threat to democracy. The Wisconsin battle is one of several going on around the country where bitter bipartisan wrangling continues even a month after the midterm elections.