Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature asked that the newest Democratic-backed justice on the state Supreme Court recuse herself from lawsuits seeking to overturn GOP-drawn electoral maps, arguing that she has prejudged the cases.
Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature asked that the newest Democratic-backed justice on the state Supreme Court recuse herself from lawsuits seeking to overturn GOP-drawn electoral maps, arguing that she has prejudged the cases.
She ran for office on an anti-gerrymandering platform, and the voters elected her (by a huge margin!) in large part because of that; if there’s any case she should not recuse herself from, it’s this one.
(obviously it’d be better if we didn’t have to resolve political questions like this through supreme court elections, but if the legislature creates a situation where it’s impossible to vote them out directly, voters are left with little alternative but to fix the system through elected justices)
So you’re admitting she’s in the pocket of Big Voter?
So you’re admitting that she’s biased against wholesale voter disenfranchisement!
Democracy itself is biased against voter disenfranchisement. How ridiculous. They should let us vote against it. The people need to be heard.