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htuttle

(23,738 posts)
Wed May 13, 2020, 07:10 PM May 2020

Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down Tony Evers' stay-at-home order that closed businesses, schools

Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down Tony Evers' stay-at-home order that closed businesses, schools to limit spread of coronavirus


MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down Gov. Tony Evers' order shutting down daily life to limit the spread of coronavirus — marking the first time a statewide order of its kind has been knocked down by a court of last resort.

The state's highest court, which is controlled by conservatives, sided with Republican lawmakers Wednesday in a decision that curbed the Evers administration's power to act unilaterally during public health emergencies.

The 4-3 decision was written by four of the court’s conservatives – Chief Justice Patience Roggensack and Justices Rebecca Bradley, Daniel Kelly and Annette Ziegler.

The court’s fifth conservative, Brian Hagedorn, wrote a dissent joined by the court’s two liberals, Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Dallet.

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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/13/wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-tony-evers-coronavirus-orders/5179205002/
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Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down Tony Evers' stay-at-home order that closed businesses, schools (Original Post) htuttle May 2020 OP
Cons care nothing for the law, at all...We keep playing by the rules, they keep ignoring the law Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #1
Wisconsin is one mess after the other. Joinfortmill May 2020 #2
So it's possible for Wisc. Supreme Court to not see the forest for the trees. The result? Eyeball_Kid May 2020 #3
When two branches of govt collude against the third AleksS May 2020 #4
The Democrats snowybirdie May 2020 #5
Jesus what a Shit hole country-state StClone May 2020 #6
My daughter called freaking out a little. She manages a bar, and is 8 months pregnant. Tech May 2020 #7
So nobody knows what this means. milestogo May 2020 #8
Summer term at UW is already planned to be virtual htuttle May 2020 #9

Eliot Rosewater

(31,087 posts)
1. Cons care nothing for the law, at all...We keep playing by the rules, they keep ignoring the law
Wed May 13, 2020, 07:12 PM
May 2020

IN EVERY INSTANCE...when does this end?

Was there an honest con here? Yes, so we wont call him a con...

but you know what I mean.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,398 posts)
3. So it's possible for Wisc. Supreme Court to not see the forest for the trees. The result?
Wed May 13, 2020, 07:23 PM
May 2020

Death for thousands. Needless death. Cheeseheads will love this shit show.

Something tells me that this decision will NOT make things better in Wisconsin. Infections will skyrocket, so will deaths, and the health care system will hemorrhage. Have fun, folks. Blame it on Republicans on the Court.

AleksS

(1,665 posts)
4. When two branches of govt collude against the third
Wed May 13, 2020, 07:24 PM
May 2020

Bad things happen.

The repubs of WI are murderous, cartoonishly-evil, charicatures Of humans.

The gop legislature knows the sup. court will rubber stamp any suit they bring so they’re completely shameless. It’s heartbreaking.

Tech

(1,762 posts)
7. My daughter called freaking out a little. She manages a bar, and is 8 months pregnant.
Wed May 13, 2020, 08:05 PM
May 2020

Her biggest concern is losing the little bit of unemployment she gets. Some of her friends have gotten nothing so far, and she has seen nothing of the extra 600.00/month. If they are forced open, no UI at all. I was feeling pretty good about the state with testing for covid available for all, and then these asshats do this. I will be in the phone again tomorrow. I am so tired of them all.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
8. So nobody knows what this means.
Thu May 14, 2020, 09:00 AM
May 2020

Do people who are furloughed have to go back to work or lose their unemployment?

Do businesses have to reopen, even if they aren't ready?

What happens when we get a spike of new infections in June?

I hate Repulicans.

htuttle

(23,738 posts)
9. Summer term at UW is already planned to be virtual
Thu May 14, 2020, 12:59 PM
May 2020

I don't see that changing at this point.

There is supposed to be about another month of public school this year. Dane county has it's own SafeAtHome order, but not sure what the rest of the state is going to do.

And I'm not sure that the Republican legislature won't try to force both Dane County and UW System to go back early, regardless of what the UW System, and local school boards, want to do.

This is all just pretty fucked up.

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