Hours after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Gov. Tony Evers’ (D) extended stay-at-home order Wednesday, the state’s biggest counties hastily cobbled together their own measures to fill the sudden void.
As the Wisconsin Supreme Court has a majority of Koch judges on it, they counties are perfectly within their rights to ignore them.
Nice people, who are willing to put themselves and others at risk in order to hit the bar.
Not like they couldn’t have a few brewskies at home or anything.
I did not know that the constitution, in its infinite wisdom, addressed public health emergencies. NIce to have ideologues stacking the courts who support business no matter what the outcomes may be. After all, the business of America is business, with a little death, toxicity, chaos and phony grass roots movements thrown in.
What COVID leaves behind, stupidity and ignorance will scoop up.
Gotta kill off those urban folk or the GOP is fucked…
This has nothing to do with supporting businesses and everything to do with supporting Trump. He’s the GOP’s only chance to remain in power and the economy and killing off liberal high-population centers is key to them staying in power beyond that.
If it was Obama in office, they’d be ruling that the state be closed and that the GOP legislature gets to tell everyone what’s what about staying home and not opening their businesses, not the Governor.
Hopefully enough Trumptards kick the bucket for the state to flip blue again.
I am happy to say that the response throughout the State so far has been positive toward maintaining the rules that were still in place yesterday. Most that have posted have said no, we’re not re-opening yet and will do so when it’s safe. Continuing to maintain their curbside and delivery service until they know it’s safe for their customers and their staff.
These are the responsible folks and deserve every bit of our business.
And here is an excellent response:
And to me, this is a further indication that the WI GOP is in deep doo-doo come November. It’s not gonna be pretty.
One of the 4 justices in the majority will soon be off the bench having lost the election that other justices assured would be held during the pandemic thinking it would help the judge that lost win.
Ignoring the number of cases and deaths that can be directly traced to the Wisconsin Supreme Court majority trying to help a Republican hold his seat, as the decision was 4-3 with the soon to be out of office judge in the majority, when his replacement is sworn in, could this be revisited.
The WI SC meets via Zoom because of the corona virus and its impact on WI citizens. Consider the optics…
Give it two weeks. That’s all it should take to point out the fallacy of this decision - right around Memorial Day. How convenient.
Yes, in the early days of the Republic there were disease outbreaks that affected mostly sailors, and the government addressed that danger. And that effort eventually became the US Public Health Service.
The Wild Midwest.
I guess they didn’t hear about the 79 infections from one barhopping dimwit in South Korea.
Or maybe they did and they’ve just chosen an intoxicating method of suicide.
The Tavern League of Wisconsin? Is that the sanctioning body for cornhole?
No, that would be Grindr.
Polls are already showing that the 65+ demographic are turning against El Jefe, probably in reaction to him getting so many of their peers hospitalized and/or buried. If that holds through November, Drumpf is toast.
Milwaukee County has 40% more people than Lake County IL, just 40 miles south but only 73% of the number of cases. They must be doing something right.
The real question is “What the hell is going on in Lake County IL?”
Well played!
He won’t be replaced until July 31, but the eventual change in that seat should at least leave some room for optimism that the court will be less into getting people killed if the virus comes back hard in the fall.
(1) WI has excellent universities
(2) I found Madison a very pleasant place
(3) People would rather be alive
Sanity will prevail in WI.