Oddbean new post about login | logout Addendum 2 Wisconsin Republicans Remind Us They Really Hate Democracy GOP's stranglehold on WI Supreme Court in peril following judicial election Republicans seek to impeach Janet Protasiewicz before court can toss state’s rigged election maps https://jacobin.com/2023/09/wisconsin-republicans-democracy-janet-protasiewicz-voting-rights-gerrymandering Breathtaking Contempt for People of WI https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/opinion/wisconsin-judge-impeachment-democracy.html Gerrymandering Project - Wisconsin: https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/reforms/WI #Wisconsin #Protasiewicz #GOP #neofascism #democracy #gerrymandering #ElectoralFraud
Addendum 3 WI GOP “Nonpartisan” Redistricting Bill Still Lets Them Draw Maps https://truthout.org/articles/wi-gop-offers-nonpartisan-redistricting-bill-that-still-lets-them-draw-maps * Republicans can’t impeach justice Janet Protasiewicz, who would likely rule against current maps * purportedly nonpartisan redistricting process * sounds good; doesn’t actually change continued GOP gerrymandering * since 2011 GOP won WI state legislature largely due to their gerrymandered districts #Wisconsin #Protasiewicz #RobinVos #GOP #neofascism #democracy #gerrymandering #ElectoralFraud
A3 cont'd Wisconsin’s Gerrymandering Is Sparking a Constitutional Crisis Badger State Republicans’ desire to hold onto power is running afoul of democracy https://newrepublic.com/article/175553/wisconsins-gerrymandering-sparking-constitutional-crisis * Wisconsin the poster child for what happens when political party [GOP] wins 1 election, draws maps to entrench itself in power, does everything it can to keep itself in office forever #Wisconsin #Protasiewicz #RobinVos #GOP #GOPmenace #neofascism #democracy #gerrymandering #ElectoralFraud
Addendum 4 Wisconsin Republicans Vote to Oust Top Elections Official * Senate GOP escalating fight over who can det. leader of group supervising 2024 elections * Meagan Wolfe, 2019, unanimously confirmed by WI Senate * suing to keep post * yrs of criticism propelled by Trump 2020 election attacks Meagan Wolfe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meagan_Wolfe * U.S. election official; nonpartisan administrator of WI Elections Commission #Wisconsin #MeaganWolfe #GOP #GOPmenace #neofascism #democracy #ElectoralFraud
Addendum 4 Wisconsin Republicans Vote to Oust Top Elections Official * Senate GOP escalating fight over who can det. leader of group supervising 2024 elections * Meagan Wolfe, 2019, unanimously confirmed by WI Senate * suing to keep post * yrs of criticism propelled by Trump 2020 election attacks Meagan Wolfe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meagan_Wolfe * U.S. election official; nonpartisan administrator of WI Elections Commission #Wisconsin #MeaganWolfe #GOP #GOPmenace #neofascism #democracy #ElectoralFraud
Addendum 5 Planned Parenthood Will Resume Abortion Services in Wisconsin 1849 anti-abortion statute unenforceable, state judge said https://truthout.org/articles/planned-parenthood-says-it-will-resume-abortion-services-in-wisconsin * 2022-06: PPWI halted abortion services after SCOTUS overturned federal abortion protections (Roe v. Wade) * PPWI was uncertain whether1849 state law; blocked by Roe ( 1973) * judge Diane Schlipper ruled that lawsuit challenging 1849 WI law could proceed #Wisconsin #abortion #Roe_v_Wade #PlannedParenthood #PPWI #Roe #Schlipper