Let’s hope Wisconsin voters stand up for democracy – Latest News
Democracy is on Wisconsin ballots Tuesday — as a result of it’ll get rolled back if the Democratic candidate wins the state Supreme Court race.
Yes: If Judge Susan Crawford beats Republican ex-Attorney General Brad Schimel, the court docket could have the liberal votes to order (partisan) congressional redistricting and impose a raft of rulings that supersede legal guidelines handed democratically.
The gerrymandering might internet two congressional seats for Democrats, boosting their drive to regain control of the House in 2026 and block President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Crawford’s backers brazenly vow that her victory might “put two more House seats in play for 2026.”
So a lot for “democracy.”
More From Post Editorial Board
They’d additionally paint it as a signal the nation opposes the Trump agenda and disapproves, particularly, of Elon Musk — who’s donated closely to Schimel in response to hefty giving to Crawford from George Soros and different rich lefties.
Plus, the left has its eye on overturning no less than one key law, Act 10 — which bans collective bargaining for public staff — since it may’t get the Legislature to rescind it by way of democratic means.
For Democrats, that’s a tried-and-true tactic: If voters and their representatives gained’t undertake the Dem place, simply get liberal-leaning courts to impose it.
That’s why they referred to as for packing the Supreme Court when Joe Biden was president.
And why, in New York, they put in a reliably liberal chief choose, Rowan Wilson, who — together with different Court of Appeals libs — dutifully tossed out a completely honest congressional district map in 2023 and ordered a new one drawn up.
In the Badger State, the pro-union left has been making an attempt (and failing) to roll back Act 10 ever because it handed in 2011.
That law produced essential price financial savings that helped Wisconsin close a multibillion-dollar finances hole. And voter assist for it’s a huge motive why Republicans control each the Wisconsin state Senate (18-15) and Assembly (54-45).
So Dems are again seeking to the court docket to bypass standard will.
Crawford truly boasts of how she’s “fought against Act 10.” (Another top-court justice, Janet Protasiewicz, refuses to recuse herself, despite the fact that she’s marched in opposition to the law.)
Get opinions and commentary from our columnists
Subscribe to our each day Post Opinion publication!
Thanks for signing up!
The longer Act 10 stands, the national left worries, the larger the possibilities that different states will take discover and rein of their own state-employee unions.
The high stakes help clarify why more than $80 million has poured into the campaigns, a big quantity for a state judicial race.
Feel some sympathy for Wisconsinites, who suffered from incessant promoting as a swing state final yr and now have been inundated by yet one more spherical of “battleground” therapy.
We simply hope enough wise voters nonetheless show up on the polls to aspect with democracy and in opposition to the court-stackers.
