Liberals fight Republican attempt to boot Wisconsin Supreme Court justice from redistricting case
Liberals argued in a legal filing this week that Republicans were trying to nullify the election of a Democratic-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court justice by asking her to recuse herself from hearing redistricting lawsuits that could result in drawing new legislative electoral maps.
Attorneys in two separate redistricting cases filed arguments Tuesday objecting to the Republican-controlled Legislature’s request that Justice Janet Protasiewicz recuse herself. They argued that there was no legal or ethical obligation for Protasiewicz to step aside, despite her comments during the campaign that she thinks the current maps are “rigged” or because she accepted nearly $10 million from the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
One motion objecting to Protasiewicz’s recusal argued that such a move would be unsupported by fact or law and “it would be contrary to her duties as a justice on the Supreme Court.”
There is only one reason to object to the drawing of fair electoral districts and that is that you know you can't win with fair electoral districts. Republicans hate free and fair elections because they can't win free and fair elections.
They admit as much to each other. The amount of election interference they have been doing is neither new or accidental. The courts gave us Bush, not the voters. The GOP is not so much a party as it is a slow coup that has only recently overplayed its hand. They remain emboldened.
They are domestic terrorists. We need to stop beating around the bush they have even declared themselves as so much in conferences.