According to Wisconsin law, the 14 Democratic senators CANNOT be held in contempt.

[highplainsdem]

http://www.forwardlookout.com/2011/03/can-they-really-hold-senators-in-contempt/9616

http://law.justia.com/codes/wisconsin/2010/13/13.26.html


I've already posted these links as replies in different topics about the WI Senate Majority Leader's illegal threats today, but I was asked in one topic to post them as an OP so more people would be aware of them.

What Fitzgerald is doing is completely illegal.

[dkofos]

1. Hope he is on the recall list

[Ellipsis]

5. nope.

[Demeter]

8. He Needs to Be in Jail

[undeterred]

13. He was just re-elected in a very red area.

I think he's very jealous of the warm welcome home that the Senators got at the rally on Saturday and probably worried about what the future holds for the Republicans.... So he's doing this based on his feelings of "contempt" for the Democratic Senators which he has confused with holding them in "contempt". When you work for a king who has divine will that becomes law, things get all mixed up.

:silly:

[PeaceNikki]

17. Not eligible. He hasn't been in office a year in current term.

[al_liberal]

2. Since when did the law mean anything to repubs? n/t

[Webster Green]

3. What are these "Laws" that you speak of?

Anyway?

[Hardrada]

7. We don' need no steenkin laws!

[Ellipsis]

4. Lester Pines is one damn fine attorney and he will scorch the repub's asses.

He'd only put it out there if he'd win... the dilemma is getting in front of the judge and if anything will be nullified after the fact.

[peace frog]

10. 'Nullified after the fact'?

Then why would the law firm bother to post this letter? Isn't it to influence any court that might take up the matter?

What the hell has happened to the rule of law in this country? Are we to simply relinquish power to that gang of elegant thugs and thieves and be done with it?

[Blue Owl]

6. I wonder what the president of the Harvard Law Review would say

or better yet, a former president of the HLR...

[peace frog]

9. This is it. The death of the rule of law in the United States

I never thought I would live to see it happen. I am physically ill at this, and absolutely do not know what to think.

[highplainsdem]

11. kick

[deacon]

12. Kick KIck KICk KICK

[pacalo]

14. K&R.

[peace frog]

15. Kick

[eowyn_of_rohan]

16. Does this mean Fitzgerald can be held in contempt? : 13.26(1)(d)

"Each house may punish as a contempt, by imprisonment, a breach of its privileges or the privileges of its members; but only for one or more of the following offenses:

(d) Giving or offering a bribe to a member, or attempting by menace or other corrupt means or device to control or influence a member's vote or to prevent the member from voting.

and how about this?

13.26(1)(a)

(a) Arresting a member or officer of the house, or procuring such member or officer to be arrested in violation of the member's privilege from arrest.


This is the one I am worried about:
13.26(1)(b)

(b) Disorderly conduct in the immediate view of either house or of any committee thereof and directly tending to interrupt its proceedings.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

18. "he's letting them vote. He's just refusing to count their votes"

"Strictly speaking, Scott Fitzgerald isn't preventing the 14 Democrats from voting; he's letting them vote. He's just refusing to count their votes, an "act of others" which is little different from preventing their votes, if "voting" is to have any meaning at all in § 13.26."

http://illusorytenant.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-wisconsin-its-hard-to-say-whos-in.html

[peace frog]

19. Kick again

No one else in DU cares about this? Anybody else out there give a flying frig? Anyone?