Wisconsin Supreme Court restores all 82 Scott Walker appointees
Source: Wisconsin State Journal
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday restored 82 appointees of former Gov. Scott Walker who were confirmed during a lame-duck legislative session, handing a victory to Republicans and defeat to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
The 4-3 order affects 15 of the appointees Evers had not reappointed after a lower court said it was legal for him to essentially fire them. Evers argued the appointees were invalidated after a lower court ruled that the entire lame-duck session, where Republicans took powers away from Evers and the incoming Democratic attorney general, was unconstitutional. Days later, an appeals court put that ruling on hold, creating more confusion about the status of the 15 people Evers did not reappoint.
The underlying legal case over the validity of the lame-duck session continues. The Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments on that for May 15.
Evers’ spokeswoman, Melissa Baldauff, predicted the governor would prevail.
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See, a president must not be allowed to appoint a Supreme Court justice when he's already five weeks into the last year of his presidency. Even if the voters have twice elected that president to be the justice-appointer-in-chief, and by convincing margins.
But a corrupt, far-right governor who's just been rejected at the ballot box by the voters should be allowed to pack the courts with dozens of right-wing extremist activist judges on his way out the door.
'Cuz, you know, principles and stuff.
And the Koch Bros are Agent Smith.
