{"id":6786,"date":"2023-11-01T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T01:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2023-11-01T01:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T01:59:20","slug":"evers-appeals-to-leftist-court-to-reject-checks-and-balances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6786","title":{"rendered":"Evers Appeals to Leftist Court to Reject Checks and Balances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/10\/31\/evers-appeals-to-leftist-court-to-reject-checks-and-balances\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evers-appeals-to-leftist-court-to-reject-checks-and-balances\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/10\/31\/evers-appeals-to-leftist-court-to-reject-checks-and-balances\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evers-appeals-to-leftist-court-to-reject-checks-and-balances<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/wisconsins-democratic-governor-sues-republican-141848508.html\">Evers is moving fast to get the high court<\/a> to give the Executive Branch more unrestrained power.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 Wisconsin Democratic Gov.\u00a0<button data-ylk=\"cid:Tony_Evers;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" data-entity-id=\"Tony_Evers\" data-rapid_p=\"14\" data-v9y=\"1\">Tony Evers<\/button>\u00a0on Tuesday sued the Republican-controlled Legislature, arguing that it is obstructing basic government functions, including signing off on\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/university-wisconsin-legislature-diversity-dei-pay-raises-ddee5255f27e54da9a36e2a76b0f5489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:pay raises;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"15\" data-v9y=\"1\">pay raises<\/a>\u00a0for university employees that were previously approved.<\/p>\n<p>Evers is\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/WIGOV\/2023\/10\/31\/file_attachments\/2665873\/Evers%20v.%20Marklein%20petition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:asking;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"16\" data-v9y=\"1\">asking<\/a>\u00a0the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case directly, bypassing lower courts.<\/p>\n<p>Evers said it was \u201ca bridge too far\u201d and \u201cjust bull s\u2014\u201d that Republican state lawmakers were telling 35,000 University of Wisconsin employees who were expecting pay raises to \u201cstick it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/10\/31\/evers-appeals-to-leftist-court-to-reject-checks-and-balances\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=evers-appeals-to-leftist-court-to-reject-checks-and-balances Evers is moving fast to get the high court&#8230;<\/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-6786","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\/6786","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=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6787"}],"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=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}