State, local and primary elections in Wisconsin must proceed, the state supreme court said after ruling that the governor lacks authority to postpone them – which he tried to do earlier, citing the coronavirus crisis. The court handed the 4-2 ruling on Monday afternoon, after the Republican majority in the state legislature complained that Governor Tony Evers overstepped his powers by ordering the April 7 primary […]
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In a late-breaking decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday night declined to extend the deadline for absentee voting in the Wisconsin primary election and general judicial election scheduled for Tuesday. Led by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s liberal wing issued a fiery and furious dissent which knocks the court’s conservative wing for denying many thousands of Wisconsinites the ability to safely vote-by-mail amid the […]
Because of Covid-19, in-person voting in Wisconsin’s elections will be postponed to June 9, Governor Tony Evers said in an executive order. His admitted constitutional overreach has sparked a furious partisan backlash. Mailed-in ballots will still be counted, Evers said on Monday in a controversial decision he admitted he had no powers to actually make, but insisting that it had to be done as a matter […]
After the Biden campaign refused to sanction plans to delay the vote, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is taking on both the Republican-controlled state assembly and national figures in the Democratic Party by issuing an executive order postponing Tuesday’s election. Evers issued the order Monday afternoon, and Republican lawmakers are expected to challenge it almost immediately in the courts. Whether the people of Wisconsin will vote tomorrow […]
<> on October 22, 2018 in Tampa, Florida. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) announced on Monday he would order a postponement of the elections that were scheduled to happen in his state tomorrow. The governor sent out a press release saying all in-person voting for statewide and local elections would be pushed back to June 9. In a statement to Politico, Evers explained that his constituents […]
It’s another new low for America’s leading racketeer-influenced and corrupt organization, formerly known as the Republican Party: Now, they’re trying to use this deadly pandemic to steal an election. Surprised? Of course you aren’t. It’s happening in Wisconsin, where the state is moving ahead with Tuesday’s primary even though every sane person agrees that it’s madness to do so under these circumstances. Democrats from Governor Tony […]
In Cathedral City, California, Norm the Australian Cattle Dog loves nipping at his new adoptive parents’ heels, as well as staring, “fascinated,” at his own image in any reflective surface. In a park in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Goliath is being gently coached by his new foster parent in the art of social distancing—in dog terms, not jumping up to greet passers-by. In Lakewood, Dallas, Brutus—a Great […]