Wisconsin Republicans Look to End Race-Based Scholarship Programs
The Center Squareby Glenn Minnis Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is vowing Republicans will move to end race-based scholarship programs across the state in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court moving…
DeSantis Campaign Raises $20 Million in 6 Weeks
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted the best first fundraising quarter of any non-incumbent Republican candidate in over a decade, according to campaign finance data. The DeSantis for President campaign…
Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Ann Jacobs Defends Strategy in Wolfe/Senate Split
by Benjamin Yount One of the Democratic members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission is calling a possible Senate vote on the state’s election administrator a “sideshow.” Commissioner Ann Jacobs…
Wisconsin Is Outlier Among Great Lakes States for Medicaid Expansion
by Mary Stroka Wisconsin is the only Great Lakes state that hasn’t adopted Medicaid expansion, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. KFF has tracked states’ expansion…
University of Wisconsin to Review Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
by Benjamin Yount The University of Wisconsin says it doesn’t yet know what the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to end affirmative action university admissions will mean for UW schools.…
Supreme Court Sides With Colorado-based Christian Website Designer in First Amendment Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state of Colorado cannot force a graphic designer to make websites with messages that go against her religious beliefs, citing…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation
Canceling hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt cannot be done by President Joe Biden and his administration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday. In a 6-3 opinion,…
Wisconsin Senate Okays $99 Billion, Two-Year State Budget
by Benjamin Yount The majority of Wisconsin Republican state senators are on board with the new $99 billion state budget. Almost every Republican voted for the two-year spending plan…
SCOTUS Strikes Down Affirmative Action Policies at Harvard, UNC
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s race-based affirmative action admission policies violate the Equal Protection Clause of the…
Supreme Court Rules Enticing Illegal Immigration Isn’t Protected Speech
Enticing illegal immigration isn’t protected free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. In United States v Hansen, in a 7-2 vote, the court on Friday reversed and remanded the…