Courts likely to strike down Republican lame-duck power grabs, experts say

[Equinox Moon]

Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina suffered stinging losses in November, but the parties aren’t transferring power quietly, or at all in some cases. On the way out the door, “lame-duck” state legislatures are bringing in last-minute laws that will strip power from incoming Democrats, gut voter-approved ballot initiatives, or otherwise undermine the election results.
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But some legal experts say the most alarming legislation the Republicans have passed is unconstitutional and unlikely to survive outraged Democrats’ legal challenges.

“One of the fundamental principles of the American constitutional system is that the legislature is not the whole government,” said Richard Primus, a professor of law at the University of Michigan. “The point of the constitutional system is that no decision-making system gets to act for the whole political community – the powers are separated.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/11/republican-lame-duck-power-grabs-unconstitutional-experts-say

I sure hope the courts strike this down.

[sheshe2]

1. I sure hope you are right.

K&R

[Equinox Moon]

2. America is in big trouble if the courts don't set this straight.

[AJT]

3. We, actually the Koch brothers, elect our state supreme court justices

here in Wisconsin so what ever the republicans want the majority conservative members of the supreme court to do they will do. It would have to go up to the now partisan federal supreme court for any possibility that the laws would be overturned.....so, I think the laws will stand.

[Equinox Moon]

4. Can't the AG of the Koch's state find some laws these SOB's are breaking?

I am sure they must have a slue of white collar crimes that would lock them up.

[AJT]

5. I believe they live in Kansas, I don't know who the AG is.