Oh, this I like.
A national Democratic group led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder filed the lawsuit on behalf of voters who argued they were disenfranchised by Walker’s decision not to call elections to fill the vacancies that occurred on Dec. 29.
Thanks Obama!
Good news.
Suck it, Scotty…
He’s made a career of that.
“Any newly elected representatives would have nothing to vote on,” he (Kilpatrick) said.
While that’s true, the newly elected members could use the time before the next legislative session meeting with their constituents, and figuring out how best to represent them when the session starts.
Shit! Sorry. I was thinking about what should happen in a representative democracy.
It’s about time DickHead Walker gets his comeuppance.
Score 1 for representative government.
Republicans no longer even pretend to believe in democracy. They’re getting their asses kicked in PA, KS, and now WI for various forms of disenfranchisement. No doubt Walker’s solution will be to impeach the judge.
Hahaha – whatever the final outcome or the GOP shenanigans and malfeasance to follow, it’s always nice when Scott Walker gets told to fuck off. Fuck you, Walker!
The law states elections must be called if they occur before the second Tuesday in May in an election year. Walker argued that only covers vacancies that happen after Jan. 1 of the same year as the election, and since these happened on Dec. 29, 2017, he’s under no requirement to act.
Jesus Christ. This is an utterly ridiculous loophole he is pulling out.
Full disclosure, I think a legislator that pulls this level of intentional malfeasance deserves real world jail time.
Oh DRAT!!! I thought they’d bought up all the judge in Wisconsin! I wonder if they’ll sue the judge like the yahoos in Pennsylvania? We wouldn’t want anything like DEMOCRACY now would we?
This is what Holder and Obama said they were going to do Help GOTV on local and state levels and By gum that is what they are doing
So of course, instead of just spending the cost of a special election, they also defend a mindnumbingly stupid legal argument in court that anyone without a law degree should be able to realize could not possibly be defensible. So they end up paying the costs for the special election and the court costs for the lawsuit.
Walker thought he was Putin. Not hardly. And more hits to his little fascist state are coming.
I’m having a pretty good day today. There’s this and then there’s this excerpt from today’s WashPo story on the budget.
"The Education Secretary wanted to spend more than $1 billion promoting vouchers while slashing funding for the rest of her department by $3.6 billion, mostly by taking it from programs that help the poor. She also wanted to make big cuts to the Office for Civil Rights and eliminate grant programs that support student mental-health services.
The final deal basically does the opposite of everything she asked for. Her department’s funding goes up by $3.9 billion, but she gets zero of the dollars she wanted for the school choice program. There’s a $700 million increase in funding for a mental health program that will fund school counselors. There’s $40 million for a D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant that she wanted to eliminate. The Office for Civil Rights, after-school programs and early childhood education programs all get money she said she didn’t want."
“Walker argued that only covers vacancies that happen after Jan. 1 of the same year as the election, and since these happened on Dec. 29, 2017, he’s under no requirement to act…”
“…unless it somehow benefits the Koch Brothers.”
Assistant Attorney General Steve Kilpatrick countered that while some voters may be harmed due to the vacancies, the damage does not rise to the legal requirement to force Walker to call special elections.
Yeah…it’s not like our revolution and the principles underlying our form of government had anything to do with people lacking representation.
I think our teachers in W VA have given labor and everyone else a little refresher course in the power of Unions . Time to fight back against Union Busting KochSuckers like Walker
“But I don’t wanna!!!” What a brat