Wisconsin governor should declare martial law in state and call out WNG to enforce it.

[fromderinside]

Your thoughts on whether, how, on what grounds ....

 

[ideologyhunter]

All about the 4/7/20 primary? I can't properly understand what I'm hearing. How can an American political party push for holding a primary at all the local precincts during a health catastrophe? How can their courts sustain it? How can any politician keep his/her seat after taking this position? In the mildest interpretation, they're disfranchising all the sensible voters, while the real story is that they're threatening the lives of all the foolhardy voters. You would think they've be chased out of the state. The Republican legislators who pushed for this thing should be forced to open the polls in their own kitchens.
Did the court find legal precedent; i.e., the British at Fort Pitt giving the Native Americans blankets from the smallpox infirmary? But that's British military procedure from 257 years ago. Do Wisconsin courts recognize it now?
Okay, instruct me: what am I missing?

 

[fromderinside]

The primary apparently has a Wisconsin constitutional referendum on the ballot. Seems the Republican badgers don't know about disease any more than did the Brits back in the day.

 

[laughing dog]

The Wisconsin Republicans might be thinking that a low turnout will help their judicial candidate. Besides the primary, there is a WI Supreme Court race. In the past 6 years, the WI Supreme Court has been very partisan in its deliberations and actions with Republicans having the numerical advantage.

 

[repoman]

I wish there was a way to single blind SCOTUS for these decisions.

If dem-reps (more rep electorate, ruthless dem political machine) were reversed would decision also flip from 5-4 to 4-5?

 

[jonatha]

[wrong....]

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

I wish there was a way to single blind SCOTUS for these decisions.

If dem-reps (more rep electorate, ruthless dem political machine) were reversed would decision also flip from 5-4 to 4-5?

SCOTUS wasn’t involved in this.

 

[laughing dog]

The SCOTUS by a 5-4 vote on ideological grounds overturned a lower court ruling that extended the absentee ballot deadline.

 

[lpetrich]

What The Heck Is Going On With Wisconsin’s Primary? | FiveThirtyEight

UPDATE (April 6, 2020, 7:32 p.m.): On Monday, Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order attempting to postpone in-person voting for Wisconsin’s April 7 election to June 9; however, Republican legislators successfully challenged the order in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. So as of Monday evening, Wisconsin will be going to the polls on Tuesday.

However, in a separate court case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled late on Monday that all absentee ballots must be postmarked by April 7, overturning an earlier ruling by a federal judge that said ballots would count as long as they were received by April 13.

Clint Smith on Twitter: "To summarize: We are in the midst of a pandemic. GOP wants to hold elections anyway. Black ppl are dying at disproportionately higher rates from this virus. Milwaukee has the highest pop of Black ppl in the state. Milwaukee went from 180 polling sites to 5. Let that all sink in." / Twitter

Part of this is due to many poll workers being old and thus vulnerable, but the state is not doing much to recruit anyone to take their place.

Clint Smith on Twitter: "To summarize: We are in the midst of a pandemic. GOP wants to hold elections anyway. Black ppl are dying at disproportionately higher rates from this virus. Milwaukee has the highest pop of Black ppl in the state. Milwaukee went from 180 polling sites to 5. Let that all sink in." / Twitter

 

[fromderinside]

So people stood in lines with 6' distance, voted, returned home, took a shower, then off to bed to toss and turn, have nightmares, then wake in cold sweat.

Results next Monday.

There ya go. Same old, same old. At least they aren't thinking any more about whether democrats will take over.

 

[lpetrich]

The results are in.

Voters reject Trump's pick in chaotic Wisconsin court race

Joe Biden won, as expected.

But the absentee-ballot-fueled victory by liberal Supreme Court candidate Jill Karofsky was a huge win for Democrats. It reduced conservative control of the court to 4-3, giving liberals a chance to take control in 2023.

Karofsky will now be on the court when the Republican-controlled Legislature tackles redistricting next year, a fight many expect to be decided by the state Supreme Court.

Her win will also certainly be seen as a bellwether in battleground Wisconsin ahead of the November presidential election. Trump barely carried the state four years ago, and both parties see it as critical this year.