They didn’t have to. There isn’t anything in the lower court rulings to challenge. And, politically, it would have been damaging for him to go into campaign season with a negative state Supreme Court ruling around his neck.
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There’s the value of incumbency, which @tsp mentioned, and the effect of the loss in more specials, which @someguy brought up. I’m a bit more focused on the latter. This is 2 more districts that went heavily for the PuPPet (thx @littlegirlblue) last Nov, and if they follow SD 10 in electing a Democrat it would further energize Dems and demoralize rethugs.
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They did? Walker’s own pet Supreme Court? That’s astonishing.
ETA: OK I’m now reading the thread backwards – @clunkertruck has the goods.
ETA,A: So what happens now with the special session?
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He’s term-limited, right? Guess the trumpets still love trump there, but any indications of a blue wave?
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Incumbency is invaluable. It’s most of the explanation for why the sleaziest, doing it for the dough guys get elected over and over. Their donors quickly understand what it’s going to take to keep him/her in office, and it’s almost miraculous that some Democrats come seemingly out of nowhere and win big. I hope we see this happen with Randy Bryce who’s challenging rAyn.
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Walker himself appointed the judge who issued the initial ruling and the appellate judge who issued today’s ruling is an early Koch Brothers plant. Surprises all around.
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Snyder and evidently Walker got the memo from the repub party telling them how McConnell successfully left a SCOTUS seat open for seven months.
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Trump: Putin is now ready. Gerrymandering alone should be sufficient though.
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This is their ingenious way of suppressing the Dem vote, to overtly steal every opportunity to cast a ballot in a very public way.
May Street Walker die of cancer, a VERY unpleasant form …
I had the sense that college towns were pretty much safe places for liberal politics, and I’m right. Madison, Austin, Ann Arbor, etc.
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Government derives its just power from the consent of the governed.
This is not that. This is despotism.
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But it is, I understand, a distinctly right-leaning court.
Frankly, they can do whatever they want and make it stick.
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And I have to wonder how many of the lege will put their own necks on the line to hold the party line on this travesty.
The opposition will make political hay out of this in November. There won’t be much time to sweep this under the rug.
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It never would have occurred to me that I would witness attack democracy of this magnitude in my adopted country in a direct and blatant fashion. Even dictators rarely enact laws to get rid of elections. They rig then or make sure there is no other candidate running against them…
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I think they need the extra time to perfect their plans to hack the voting machines.
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Pure, unadulterated sleaze…how do they keep getting away with this…where is the outrage by the electorate?
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Ask any Michigander.
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The Kochs have been trying to get voters over the idea that the voters have a right to representation for some time now.
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Lawmakers and Walker are seriously saying it’s ok if constituents should have to go 11 months without representation?