Wisconsin legislature sues to block enforcement of governor's stay-at-home order

The Republican-led Wisconsin legislature is calling on the state's Supreme Court to temporarily block enforcement of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers's stay-at-home order just days after he extended the directive through May 26.

In an emergency petition, the legislature argued that the emergency order goes beyond the executive branch's statutory powers.

"Wisconsinites are forced to sit by with no voice in the process," Speaker Robin Vos (R) and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) said in a statement. "Other Midwestern states with more confirmed cases, like Ohio, have set firm dates to begin a phased reopening far earlier than the Evers administration."

Wisconsin's health department has reported more than 4,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and 242 deaths from it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/493953-wisconsin-legislature-sues-to-stop-enforcement-of-governors-stay-at-home