{"id":4746,"date":"2023-08-06T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2023-08-06T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:09:03","slug":"leftist-justices-begin-rule-with-authoritarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4746","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Justices Begin Rule With Authoritarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/08\/06\/leftist-justices-begin-rule-with-authoritarianism\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leftist-justices-begin-rule-with-authoritarianism<\/a><\/p>\n

The Leftists majority on the Supreme Court is off to a spectacular start<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Stunningly, it took them only about 48 hours to be credibly accused of violating the state Constitution, state law, and Supreme Court rules \u2013 TWICE. First, they fired Randy Koschnick, the respected State Courts Director, and wouldn\u2019t tell him or anyone else why. Everyone\u2019s best guess is it\u2019s because\u00a0he ran against<\/a>\u00a0liberal Shirley Abrahamson in 2009. This even earned them criticism from some liberals, like the former MADISON MAYOR (not an easy feat), who accused them of a partisan witch hunt, since Koschnick was a low-profile, effective innovator who didn\u2019t inject politics into the job (and he just got an award!).<\/p>\n

They appear to have hatched his unexplained and totally out-of-protocol firing before Janet Protasiewicz was even sworn in, didn\u2019t tell the conservatives on the court about it (are we a middle school clique? Paging Lindsay Lohan\u2026), and cut out the chief justice, even though the state Constitution gave HER authority to call administrative conferences. This led the state Senate\u2019s Judiciary Committee Chair, Van Wanggaard, to accuse them of violating the law, their oaths, and the Constitution, all in one day!<\/p>\n

They are so petty that they didn\u2019t even wait until Thursday for Koschnick to return from out-of-state, ordering a staffer to box up his family photos. He responded by calling them (correctly) a \u201cwrecking ball\u201d in the press.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Remember a couple of things\u2026 first, this was predictable, predicted, and utterly preventable. Wisconsin\u2019s voters chose this. Second, there is very little recourse. The Court is a coequal branch of government and can, with limited exception, manage their internal affairs as they see fit. There\u2019s not a helluva lot anyone can do about it \u2013 much less when another coequal branch of government, the Executive Branch lorded over by Governor Evers, is cheering them on.<\/p>\n

This court will leave a swath of damage through Wisconsin that will last for decades. Indeed, elections have consequences.<\/p>\n

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This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/08\/06\/leftist-justices-begin-rule-with-authoritarianism\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leftist-justices-begin-rule-with-authoritarianism The Leftists majority on the Supreme Court is off…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}