{"id":8491,"date":"2024-01-23T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8491"},"modified":"2024-01-23T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:03:58","slug":"usurpers-on-the-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8491","title":{"rendered":"Usurpers on the high court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/01\/23\/usurpers-on-the-high-court\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=usurpers-on-the-high-court\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/01\/23\/usurpers-on-the-high-court\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=usurpers-on-the-high-court<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westbenddailynews-wi.newsmemory.com\/\">My column for the <em>Washington County Daily News<\/em> is online and in print<\/a>. Here\u2019s a part:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_0\">The leftist-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court is continuing its rampage to strip Wisconsinites of self-governance and reshape the state to their will. Where leftists could not win support for their ideology at the ballot box, they will use the power of the court to advance it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_0\">Unless you are a political nerd, it is difficult to convey how bad the court is acting in regard to Wisconsin\u2019s legislative maps. Article 4 section 3 of the Wisconsin Constitution is crystal clear that it is the duty and responsibility of the state legislature to redraw the state\u2019s legislative boundaries every 10 years after the federal census.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_0\">The Supreme Court does not have to use any of the submitted maps. They could just ignore them all and draw their own. One thing is certain, however: The new maps will maximize the advantage for Democrats even if districts are gerrymandered such that they will be renowned as a piece of abstract art. One need only look to our neighbors in Illinois to see the depths to which Democrats will gerrymander districts to their advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_0\">But the deeper outrage of the leftist court\u2019s actions is not the<\/span><span class=\"Fid_0\">\u00a0\u201cwhat,\u201d but the \u201cwho.\u201d Our government of self-governance relies on the rule of law and the separation of powers. The leftists are rejecting both of these bedrock principles in one stroke. They are substituting ideology for law and brazenly snatching an express constitutional power from the legislative branch of government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_0\">We are watching a judicial coup unfold before our eyes. These are menacing times.<\/span><\/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\/2024\/01\/23\/usurpers-on-the-high-court\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=usurpers-on-the-high-court My column for the Washington County Daily News is&#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-8491","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\/8491","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=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8492,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions\/8492"}],"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=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}