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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

New Legal System proposed by Walker! Allows Bad/Unconstitutional Laws to take effect anyway, even under legal challenge!

Nothing says authoritarian one party rule than the latest dictatorial power grab by Scott Walker and the Republican Majority. They don’t even have to hide their arrogant control of state government, because their voters just don't seem to care.

Will voters decide in time to stop this madness, even when it’s their own party being criticize? This could backfire the day Democrats take control again.

But the way Walker is acting, that day will not be allowed to happen again. With the bill below, I believe he’s got a point:  
jsonline: With some of their major legislative achievements thwarted by the courts in the past two years, Wisconsin Republicans are advancing a bill that would minimize the ability of circuit judges to block state laws for the long term. Under a measure announced Wednesday, such injunctions would be automatically stayed as soon as they were appealed - meaning the laws would immediately be put back in effect. Rep. David Craig (R-Big Bend), a chief sponsor of the measure, said the bill would provide stability. He noted that challenges to state laws are ultimately decided by higher courts in many instances.
Stability > Constitution. Craig admits conservative judges don’t make decisions based on the legality or constitutionality of proposed laws, but on a conservative belief system. Check it out:
"We're trying to speed up the process," Craig said. "One judge elected by one extremely small fraction of the state . . . isn't going to have ultimate say-so over law."
That one extremely small fraction, liberals in Dane County, have rural counterparts all over the state. So much so that in one poll, pictured here, Democrats outnumbered Republicans. Yet you'd never know that by the one sided rule we've seen in the legislature:
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) called the bill an outrageous "power grab" that would further polarize the public.

Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said in a statement the bill was abhorrent because it would allow a law to remain in effect after a judge determined it was unconstitutional. "Under their scheme, our justice system would be turned on its head to satisfy their seemingly insatiable quest for political power," his statement said. "While they flout the constitution, people's rights would be denied."
Just so you know:
In a sign the bill could move quickly, it gained support Wednesday from (the biggest asshole in the Assembly) Speaker Robin Vos. 




http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/miffed-by-court-decisions-against-them-gop-lawmakers-want-to-limit-impact-of-rulings-439ghsq-202338051.html

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