MADISON, Wis. – A Dane County judge struck down on Monday, Dec. 2 parts of Act 10, a Wisconsin law that placed limits on government workers’ unions.
The judge already ruled in July that the law broke the Wisconsin Constitution. Now on Dec. 2, 2024, Judge Jacob Frost released his decision laying out what parts of Act 10 should be struck as unconstitutional.
“This gets to the heart of the Court’s July Decision –the unconstitutional creation of the “public safety employee” group and differential treatment of it without a rational basis – so I strike these sections,” Frost wrote in the new decision.
I can’t tell you how exhausting I find the prospect of litigating Act 10 again. We did this ten years ago. The law is clearly, unequivocally, irrevocably constitutional and the policy has had a tremendously positive impact on the state.
But none of that matters. The Leftist judges in Madison – especially the ones on the Supreme Court – are going to gut it anyway for brazen political purposes. It is the absolute worst manifestation of a corrupted judicial system that rules to ideological outcomes instead of allegiance to the rule of law.
Not mentioned in the Yay Hoo story: the judge signed the Walker recall petition and refused to recuse.
And then there is this…
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, whose 2023 win tilted majority control of the seven-person court in favor of liberals, also signed the recall petition. She said during the campaign that she believes Act 10 is unconstitutional and that she would consider recusing herself from any case challenging it.
She’ll consider it for about 3 seconds.
Calvi is new to Wisconsin; been here only about a year or so, and like most of the TeeVee reporters (see, e.g. Channel 4) and nearly ALL the print-press/toilet paper bunch, has zero historical smarts.
But at least he can pronounce Oconomowoc.