Wisconsin Court Validates a Republican Strategy to Preserve Power

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/us/wisconsin-supreme-court-natural-resources-board.html?referringSource=articleShare

No paywall
https://archive.ph/GKPqb

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday effectively handed the Republican-controlled State Senate broad authority over the composition of state boards and commissions, three and a half years into the term of a Democratic governor whose duties include naming board members.

The ruling allows a Republican member of the state Natural Resources Board whose term expired in May 2021, Frederick Prehn, to keep his position. Dr. Prehn had refused to step down, arguing that a replacement to his post has not been confirmed.

The court’s 4-3 opinion, which fell along ideological lines, turned on a technical question of when the seat on the board would be legally vacant. But its practical effect was to affirm a strategy devised by the State Senate to keep Republican board members in office simply by refusing to confirm replacements nominated by Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.

A similar move by the Senate has allowed Republicans who refused to resign to remain on the board that oversees the state’s 16 public technical colleges, which enroll 250,000 students annually. The Senate also has refused to confirm Mr. Evers’s appointees to the Board of Regents that governs the public university system. He appointed regents to replace ones who resigned when their terms expired. But the Senate could remove them should a Republican win the governor’s race in November.

*snip*


Insanity. Pure fucking insanity.

[Bluethroughu]

1. Fascist are moving quickly because people are noting their moves.

They are frightened by what people will do, because they are always ploting

[SergeStorms]

2. Stealing McConnell's dirty tricks.

Democrats have to keep all of this dirty, underhanded crap in their memory banks and use it against republican'ts if they regain control of the Senate.

I'm sick of playing by the rules and getting fucked over by republican'ts all the time. It's time to take the gloves off.

[dalton99a]

3. Republicans are always ready and willing to exercise every bit of power they have.

No shame, no guilt, no hesitation.

[sarcasmo]

5. Glad my lease is up.