The high court’s new majority may strike down the state’s abortion ban and gerrymanders, but Republicans have already signaled they’ll try impeaching judges.
  • oehm@midwest.socialEnglish
    271·
    11 months ago

    This article is old, she won back in April. The news is that she is getting sworn in today August 1st.

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        House (GOP) Leadership said they wouldn’t do it. Wisconsin’s path to removal is a bit different than at the federal level, too. It appears to be a non-starter.

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    272·
    11 months ago

    This is huge for women’s health and reproductive freedom in Wisconsin, but it’s even bigger for democracy as a whole.

    Her opponent was basically fine overturning election results and Trump narrowly lost a challenge in 2020 in Wisconsin that could have kept him in office.

    Everyone wins today.

  • Rom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    Republican lawmakers have signaled that they will use their gerrymandered majorities to fight the court. Several Republican said in the run-up to Tuesday, before Protasiewicz even won, that they would consider impeaching her and removing her from office.

    Republicans know they can’t win fairly and will cheat and steal to stay in power.

      • Rom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        It’s just tiring how Republicans can openly subvert the will of the voters and face zero consequences for it, even from their own party.

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          Normal and good are also not synonymous.

          Shit like this has always how politics worked in the US, even back in the colonial days. The American Revolution was basically rich landowners getting huffy that they didn’t have all the power.

          There’s more people saying the quiet part out loud, now, but it’s always been about getting one over on your opponent. It’d be nice if it was about representing the best interests of the people, and there are definitely quite a few who embody that… but they rarely get any kind of measurable power.

          The only way to change that is to acknowledge it and resolve to change it.

            • Cabrio@lemmy.world
              1·
              11 months ago

              Basically all the names on the ballot are randomised so people who number all the boxes in order of the ballot, 1-6 or however many, become statistically more equal across candidates. Many US states have the incumbant or primary state party always in the leading positions giving them an advantage with throwaway voters.