{"id":15874,"date":"2025-03-25T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15874"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:01:02","slug":"court-watch-playing-politics-in-least-political-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15874","title":{"rendered":"Court Watch: Playing Politics in Least Political Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-playing-politics-in-least-political-branch\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-playing-politics-in-least-political-branch\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AdminOfCourts.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-Admin-of-the-Courts.pdf\"><span>\u201cCourt Watch\u201d primer<\/span><\/a><span> on Tuesday, detailing how the least political branch is becoming political under a progressive majority. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Admin-of-the-Courts.pdf\"><span>primer<\/span><\/a><span> outlines how the progressive majority is attempting to remake the courts in line with its ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WHY IT MATTERS:<\/b> <span>The Wisconsin Supreme Court\u2019s majority has set a new record low for the number of cases reviewed in a term, with just 14 decisions in its 2023-24 term. The Court had averaged around 50 in recent years\u2013the dropoff could be credited to the dysfunction on the court and the number of complex political cases the court reviewed, especially redistricting. In other words, numerous litigants did not have their cases reviewed so the court could keep its calendar free for the accelerated pace necessary to get its redistricting decision done and implemented in time for the 2024 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>THE QUOTE:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Judges wear black robes, not red or blue jerseys for a particular political team. Even though many come to the bench from a career in public service, including past elected offices, their job is to follow and apply the law fairly and impartially<\/b><b>,\u201d <\/b><span>said Chris Reader, Executive Vice President of IRG.<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Yet under the current liberal majority, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has become pervasively political, as the majority uses its power to enforce its agenda.\u201d<\/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-Admin-of-the-Courts.pdf\"><b>Read the primer here.\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-playing-politics-in-least-political-branch\/ Delafield, Wis. \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15874","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\/15874","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=15874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15877,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions\/15877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}