The MAGA Court Been Busy
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White folks not interested in saving the planet.
They've been a non-stop cancer to all civilizations.
When nature pulls the plug that's when this bullshit will stop.
By then white folks won't care, their attitude is, if we can't rule, no one can rule.
They will die with a smile on their pale faces knowing they burned the house down before dying out.
They've been a non-stop cancer to all civilizations.
When nature pulls the plug that's when this bullshit will stop.
By then white folks won't care, their attitude is, if we can't rule, no one can rule.
They will die with a smile on their pale faces knowing they burned the house down before dying out.
I told you guys white people are going to fuck up everything going out the door and this is the beginning of it
This what happens when youvote a billionaire real estate developer as POTUS.
Environmentalists have always been the enemies of developers.
If it was up-to them, they would pollute every body of water in the country to make a buck.
Wait til they start that pipeline w the judges and SC justices that Trump put in place.
Think about a planet that’s millions of years old, and how much damage has been done in the last 100 years.
Planet been dying slowly since white folks set foot here.
Carry on……
And since white people are beginning to leave this planet and bunches they want to fuck up everything going out the door.This what happens when youvote a billionaire real estate developer as POTUS.
Environmentalists have always been the enemies of developers.
If it was up-to them, they would pollute every body of water in the country to make a buck.
Wait til they start that pipeline w the judges and SC justices that Trump put in place.
Think about a planet that’s millions of years old, and how much damage has been done in the last 100 years.
Planet been dying slowly since white folks set foot here.
Carry on……
Didn't Texas damn near have a power outage in multiple cities this year? They literally don't care how their own people live, no wonder "family" is everything to them. They low key worship those poor married immigrants and want the same here.
Did they blame it on clean energy and windmills again like they did in 2021? The grid fails in every season but they don't think they're doing something wrong.
You’ve always been clued into the wrong thing.
White people believe their money is going to help them combat global warming.
Windmills cause cancer. I think..
They need to just connect their shit to Mexico's grid and call it a day.This is their problem
Wisconsin Supreme Court Backs GOP Scheme To Rob Dem Governor Of Appointment Powers
A new decision "continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state," Gov. Tony Evers said.
https://www.huffpost.com/author/travis-waldron
The Wisconsin Supreme Court endorsed a blatant power grab by the Republican-controlled state Senate on Wednesday, using a case focused on technical bureaucratic matters to endorse a scheme to seize control of state boards and commissions by declining to confirm appointments from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
In a 4-3 decision, the court’s conservative justices ruled that Fred Prehn, a GOP member of the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board, could remain in his position despite the fact that his term ended more than a year ago, simply because the state Senate has not yet confirmed the replacement appointed by Evers.
Prehn refused to leave the role at the scheduled end of his term in May 2021, arguing that it is not technically vacant until his replacement is confirmed. The Republican-controlled legislature, meanwhile, is not confirming many of Evers’ appointments, creating an inescapable Catch-22 that effectively robs the Democratic governor of his appointment power.
The state Supreme Court majority sanctioned this scheme Wednesday, affirming a lower court ruling that the expiration of Prehn’s term by itself “does not create a vacancy” under state law, and that Evers and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul cannot seek his removal.
The ruling will have substantial impacts on Wisconsin environmental policy, allowing a board that creates and shapes the implementation of such rules to remain in control of its current Republican majority.
More broadly, it will provide another boost to Wisconsin Republicans’ efforts to use their state legislative majorities to exert unprecedented levels of power over the state, as they seek to erode Evers’ authorities on nearly every front. In effect, Republicans can ensure GOP control of state boards and commissions in perpetuity by refusing to leave appointed positions when their terms expire, as long as the state Senate also declines to confirm their replacements.
It’s the latest example of how state legislative Republicans, who have consolidated and expanded their majorities with aggressive rounds of gerrymandering during the previous two redistricting cycles, have assumed near total control of Wisconsin, despite the election of a Democratic governor in 2018 and the narrow partisan split of the state as a whole.
“Today, I remind the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Republican Party of this state that we do still live in a democracy, a very basic function of which is the peaceful and respectful transfer of power, even — and most especially — when you lose,” Evers said in a statement after the ruling. “Today’s decision continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state. It’s wrongheaded, it’s shortsighted, and it’s politics at its most dangerous.”
In Wednesday’s decision, the conservative justices leaned on a literal reading of state law and prior state Supreme Court decisions. The court’s liberal justices criticized the ruling, calling it “absurd” and arguing that it would allow political appointees who are allied with state Senate leaders to effectively determine the length of their terms.
“The majority’s absurd holding allows Prehn’s six-year term on the Board of Natural Resources — which expired over a year ago — to last for as long as Prehn wants it to, so long as he refuses to leave and the senate doesn’t confirm a successor nominated by the governor,” Justice Rebecca Dallet wrote in the minority’s dissent. “Allowing Prehn to continue serving in office indefinitely makes him the final authority on whether he remains in office — not the legislature, which specified by statute that his term expired over 13 months ago, and not the governor, who the legislature gave the authority to nominate a replacement.”
“One unelected official should not be able to dictate his term in office over the will of the people’s elected representatives,” Dallet wrote, adding that the decision “steers our state’s government directly into disorder and chaos” by “threatening the fragile separation of powers central to its functions.”
Evers appointed Prehn’s apparent successor to the Natural Resources Board in April 2021, just weeks before Prehn’s six-year term was supposed to end. Sandra Naas, Evers’ choice to replace Prehn, has attended board meetings for more than a year, but has no power to vote as part of it. Prehn has denied that his desire to remain on the board is rooted in partisan interests, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported in April, although his replacement with Naas would flip the composition of the board’s majority from GOP appointees to Democratic picks.
Kaul, the Democratic attorney general, filed a lawsuit seeking to force Prehn to abandon the seat last August.
The ongoing dispute between Evers and the legislature has been aided by Wisconsin’s “unusually fluid system of separation of powers,” said Howard Schweber, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
“Combined with a very stark partisan division between the branches — itself the result of a highly successful Republican gerrymander — the result is a nearly constant state of conflict between Evers and the legislature over various issues of executive power as the legislature tries to prevent Evers from pursuing his agenda,” he said.
The state Supreme Court has been a useful ally for the Wisconsin GOP throughout that fight.
Last year, it resolved a dispute between Evers and the legislature by approving a heavily gerrymandered redistricting plan that further tilted the balance of state legislative maps in favor of Republicans, who already enjoyed severely disproportionate advantages: In 2012’s state legislative races, for instance, Republican candidates garnered 46% of the statewide vote but won 60% of the seats in both the state House of Representatives and the state Senate. In 2018, when Evers narrowly defeated former Gov. Scott Walker, the GOP won just 45% of votes cast in state Assembly elections, but took 65% of its seats.
The new maps are expected to further skew the legislature in favor of the GOP, which has consistently attempted to use its existing majorities to curb Evers’ authority.
Immediately after his 2018 victory, the legislature used a special session to pass new laws reducing his powers in numerous ways, a plot that GOP state House Speaker Robin Vos acknowledged was meant to ensure Evers could not “enact policies that are in direct contrast to what many of us believe in.”
A judge blocked that attempt, but Vos and the GOP later stripped Evers of most of his emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the legislature took the first step toward the approval of a constitutional amendment that would curb Evers’ powers over funds the state receives from the federal government, an effort that resulted from a dispute over federal aid related to the pandemic.
The state Supreme Court aided those efforts as well, repeatedly ruling that executive orders Evers issued during the pandemic abused his emergency powers. It sided with the legislature in one such ruling, after GOP lawmakers sued to block an executive order that sought to postpone the state’s April 2020 primary elections because of the pandemic.
That ruling, Marquette University law professor Edward Fallone wrote at the time, had “nothing to do with the Rule of Law,” a proper reading of which, he argued, would have resulted in “a contrary result.”
Prehn said in a statement that he would continue serving on the board “until my successor is duly confirmed by the Senate,” Wisconsin Public Radio reported.
Republicans appear to have no intentions of replacing him any time soon: They ended this year’s legislative session in March without holding a confirmation vote on Evers’ appointment to replace him.
A new decision "continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state," Gov. Tony Evers said.
https://www.huffpost.com/author/travis-waldron
The Wisconsin Supreme Court endorsed a blatant power grab by the Republican-controlled state Senate on Wednesday, using a case focused on technical bureaucratic matters to endorse a scheme to seize control of state boards and commissions by declining to confirm appointments from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
In a 4-3 decision, the court’s conservative justices ruled that Fred Prehn, a GOP member of the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board, could remain in his position despite the fact that his term ended more than a year ago, simply because the state Senate has not yet confirmed the replacement appointed by Evers.
Prehn refused to leave the role at the scheduled end of his term in May 2021, arguing that it is not technically vacant until his replacement is confirmed. The Republican-controlled legislature, meanwhile, is not confirming many of Evers’ appointments, creating an inescapable Catch-22 that effectively robs the Democratic governor of his appointment power.
The state Supreme Court majority sanctioned this scheme Wednesday, affirming a lower court ruling that the expiration of Prehn’s term by itself “does not create a vacancy” under state law, and that Evers and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul cannot seek his removal.
The ruling will have substantial impacts on Wisconsin environmental policy, allowing a board that creates and shapes the implementation of such rules to remain in control of its current Republican majority.
More broadly, it will provide another boost to Wisconsin Republicans’ efforts to use their state legislative majorities to exert unprecedented levels of power over the state, as they seek to erode Evers’ authorities on nearly every front. In effect, Republicans can ensure GOP control of state boards and commissions in perpetuity by refusing to leave appointed positions when their terms expire, as long as the state Senate also declines to confirm their replacements.
It’s the latest example of how state legislative Republicans, who have consolidated and expanded their majorities with aggressive rounds of gerrymandering during the previous two redistricting cycles, have assumed near total control of Wisconsin, despite the election of a Democratic governor in 2018 and the narrow partisan split of the state as a whole.
“Today, I remind the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Republican Party of this state that we do still live in a democracy, a very basic function of which is the peaceful and respectful transfer of power, even — and most especially — when you lose,” Evers said in a statement after the ruling. “Today’s decision continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state. It’s wrongheaded, it’s shortsighted, and it’s politics at its most dangerous.”
In Wednesday’s decision, the conservative justices leaned on a literal reading of state law and prior state Supreme Court decisions. The court’s liberal justices criticized the ruling, calling it “absurd” and arguing that it would allow political appointees who are allied with state Senate leaders to effectively determine the length of their terms.
“The majority’s absurd holding allows Prehn’s six-year term on the Board of Natural Resources — which expired over a year ago — to last for as long as Prehn wants it to, so long as he refuses to leave and the senate doesn’t confirm a successor nominated by the governor,” Justice Rebecca Dallet wrote in the minority’s dissent. “Allowing Prehn to continue serving in office indefinitely makes him the final authority on whether he remains in office — not the legislature, which specified by statute that his term expired over 13 months ago, and not the governor, who the legislature gave the authority to nominate a replacement.”
“One unelected official should not be able to dictate his term in office over the will of the people’s elected representatives,” Dallet wrote, adding that the decision “steers our state’s government directly into disorder and chaos” by “threatening the fragile separation of powers central to its functions.”
Evers appointed Prehn’s apparent successor to the Natural Resources Board in April 2021, just weeks before Prehn’s six-year term was supposed to end. Sandra Naas, Evers’ choice to replace Prehn, has attended board meetings for more than a year, but has no power to vote as part of it. Prehn has denied that his desire to remain on the board is rooted in partisan interests, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported in April, although his replacement with Naas would flip the composition of the board’s majority from GOP appointees to Democratic picks.
Kaul, the Democratic attorney general, filed a lawsuit seeking to force Prehn to abandon the seat last August.
The ongoing dispute between Evers and the legislature has been aided by Wisconsin’s “unusually fluid system of separation of powers,” said Howard Schweber, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
“Combined with a very stark partisan division between the branches — itself the result of a highly successful Republican gerrymander — the result is a nearly constant state of conflict between Evers and the legislature over various issues of executive power as the legislature tries to prevent Evers from pursuing his agenda,” he said.
The state Supreme Court has been a useful ally for the Wisconsin GOP throughout that fight.
Last year, it resolved a dispute between Evers and the legislature by approving a heavily gerrymandered redistricting plan that further tilted the balance of state legislative maps in favor of Republicans, who already enjoyed severely disproportionate advantages: In 2012’s state legislative races, for instance, Republican candidates garnered 46% of the statewide vote but won 60% of the seats in both the state House of Representatives and the state Senate. In 2018, when Evers narrowly defeated former Gov. Scott Walker, the GOP won just 45% of votes cast in state Assembly elections, but took 65% of its seats.
The new maps are expected to further skew the legislature in favor of the GOP, which has consistently attempted to use its existing majorities to curb Evers’ authority.
Immediately after his 2018 victory, the legislature used a special session to pass new laws reducing his powers in numerous ways, a plot that GOP state House Speaker Robin Vos acknowledged was meant to ensure Evers could not “enact policies that are in direct contrast to what many of us believe in.”
A judge blocked that attempt, but Vos and the GOP later stripped Evers of most of his emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the legislature took the first step toward the approval of a constitutional amendment that would curb Evers’ powers over funds the state receives from the federal government, an effort that resulted from a dispute over federal aid related to the pandemic.
The state Supreme Court aided those efforts as well, repeatedly ruling that executive orders Evers issued during the pandemic abused his emergency powers. It sided with the legislature in one such ruling, after GOP lawmakers sued to block an executive order that sought to postpone the state’s April 2020 primary elections because of the pandemic.
That ruling, Marquette University law professor Edward Fallone wrote at the time, had “nothing to do with the Rule of Law,” a proper reading of which, he argued, would have resulted in “a contrary result.”
Prehn said in a statement that he would continue serving on the board “until my successor is duly confirmed by the Senate,” Wisconsin Public Radio reported.
Republicans appear to have no intentions of replacing him any time soon: They ended this year’s legislative session in March without holding a confirmation vote on Evers’ appointment to replace him.
No surprise at all... Just more evidence that the U.S. governing system is broken. The obvious party line rulings in the SCOTUS is sickeningly rampant. Every time they seemingly voted to give an "unpopular" decision against the conservative party lines in the last two years, I said it was a setup for bigger things to come. And here we are... It is no accident that Supreme Court Justice Uncle Tom has been soo vocal after sitting there silently like a fucking bump on a log for 30 years when soo many important cases came up that had major impacts on minority communities. He in particular should have been disbarred over his actions with regard to his wife's bullshit. But watch... As they will continue gift wrapping all of the conservative right's wishes up in bow's right before they close-out. Thus super powering the conservative right's base just in time for prepping mid-term runs... The icing on top is the trojan horse with turning back the Trump era "wait in Mexico" policy (which I don't really hate to tell you the truth), because that shit alone is going to fire up every tikki torch wanna be CAC in the country when FOX finishes broadcasting Armageddon which is the hoards of migrates that are poised to flood the border. I shudder to think how crazy this country is going to be in 2025. BTW... I got money on the fact Uncle Tom will announce his retirement from the SCOTUS next year after the Right has secured a controlling numbers of seats that will allow them to block any nominee that may be put forth until after the 2024 election.
With SCUTOS showing their Maga Asses,now the State courts are doing the same.
They know when the cases get to the SCOTUS they bullshit will ride.
They know when the cases get to the SCOTUS they bullshit will ride.
This has been a de facto corporatocracy since Citizens United v FEC. It’s just becoming more obvious now that the oligarchs are putting the pedal to the medal.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
Uncle Tom was never quiet. He was always a talker. The conservatives are confident because congress is in a political gridlock, and when they recapture the White House, we will be back in chains. And when the plan fail, they will claim that the administrative state is a failure.
This is the revenge tour for that master coon Clarence Thomas for fucking with his seditious fat cac wife
sidebar: he been getting the best blow jobs that he's ever gotten from her since Roe v Wade was overturned.... I bet he's even ZODding her out now with that fierceness too
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sidebar: he been getting the best blow jobs that he's ever gotten from her since Roe v Wade was overturned.... I bet he's even ZODding her out now with that fierceness too
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The GOP has been quietly consolidating power in State Legislatures for decades. Most of the "both sides" contigent have no idea how close these assholes are to calling a constitutional convention on they asses. And if the Supreme Court grants them their wishes on Moore v Harper (spoiler, they probably will) then democracy is literally over as this would've worked to overturn Biden's Presidency in 2020 despite the popular and Electoral vote etc. Folks don't understand how fragile this democracy shit is rn.
They don't have enough states yet to call for a convention but you are 100% correct.
That is the end game...
They're way too close for comfort on the constitutional convention stuff given the end-game bruh. And if the Supreme Court rules the way I'd imagine they will on Moore v Harper (giving State Legislatures the power to draft their own election law) this shit is done AND finished on some Birdman shit. If they had that power during 2020 we'd be looking at a Trump Presidency rn. Folks better wake up to this new fascist reality and get prepared
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