{"id":15799,"date":"2025-03-17T18:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15799"},"modified":"2025-03-17T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:58:07","slug":"court-watch-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-is-the-backstop-against-bureaucrat-overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15799","title":{"rendered":"Court Watch: The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the Backstop Against Bureaucrat Overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-backstop-against-bureaucrat-overreach\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-backstop-against-bureaucrat-overreach\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Separation-of-Powers.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><b>Delafield, Wis.<\/b><span> \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) released another <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Separation-of-Powers.pdf\"><span>\u201cCourt Watch\u201d primer<\/span><\/a><span> detailing how the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the last check on the Administrative State on Monday. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Separation-of-Powers.pdf\"><span>primer<\/span><\/a><span> outlines important cases where the Wisconsin Supreme Court has served as a check on bureaucracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WHY IT MATTERS:<\/b> <span>Oftentimes lawsuits and legislative oversight are the last two lines of defense against the power-hungry moves of Madison bureaucrats set on running our lives, whether from the Department of Natural Resources or Department of Revenue. The state constitution embodies a simple but profound principle\u2014the separation of powers\u2014to ensure that our liberties are protected. Bureaucrats are often working to expand their empire, and it\u2019s imperative we have a Wisconsin Supreme Court that keeps those efforts under control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>THE QUOTE:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Wisconsin bureaucrats do not have unchecked authority to exert control over our lives. They derive their authority from the legislative branch and must answer to the judiciary<\/b><b>,\u201d<\/b><span> said Jake Curtis, General Counsel and Director of IRG\u2019s CIO.<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the court of last resort when an agency action or inaction is challenged, and Wisconsinites should be paying attention to the Supreme Court\u2019s willingness to smack down illegal agency action.<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT\u2019S NEXT: <\/b><span>State courts impact everyday Wisconsinites\u2019 lives and IRG\u2019s new Court Watch initiative will lead in educating on the importance of the judicial branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Separation-of-Powers.pdf\"><b>Read the primer here. <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-backstop-against-bureaucrat-overreach\/ Delafield, Wis. \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15802,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions\/15802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}