Scott Walker Ends His Miserable Governorship With a Final Assault on Democracy

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Scott Walker Ends His Miserable Governorship With a Final Assault on Democracy
Scott Walker has chosen to finish his term as it began, by placing his petty ambitions ahead of a state that he never understood and never chose to lead as anything more than a partisan placeholder.

The defeated Republican governor of Wisconsin capped his tenure on a pathetic note: by signing a sweeping package of legislation designed by his legislative henchmen to grab power away from Governor-elect Tony Evers and Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul—the Democrats who were elected on November 6. The measures do damage to democracy, but they do far more severe damage to Walker’s place in the long history of Wisconsin.
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It is an assault on the nation when people place partisan loyalties above both the rule of law and the principles of democracy. We see this in such actions as gerrymandering voting districts, in various ways of voter suppression and in actual election fraud.
 
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I agree, the Republican Party does seem to be heading in that direction. :sigh:
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The techniques employed by Marxism and fascism are so similar as to be indistinguishable.
 
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Using the word "democracy" when they mean "globalist Marxism".

For the loony right, election results are "globalist Marxism", if they lose. When they win, it's the "will of the people."

The people of Wisconsin told Scott, "you messed up, you're fired."

Scott told the people of Wisconsin, "I'll get you for that." And he did.

Guess what that will do for the republican party in Wisconsin.
 
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It is an assault on the nation when people place partisan loyalties above both the rule of law and the principles of democracy. We see this in such actions as gerrymandering voting districts, in various ways of voter suppression and in actual election fraud.

It's disheartening to see democrats Gerrymandering like republicans. But it's the way it works; you don't trust politicians to chose their voters. Redistricting has to be by bipartisan methods, or it will be crooked.

At least democrats can take some comfort in seeing that all the documented cases of organized voter fraud have been by republicans.

I often wonder if democrats would favor voter suppression if allowing everyone to vote didn't work in their favor.
 
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The Wisconsin Senate voted this week to pass wide-reaching bills in a lame-duck session that would empower the GOP-controlled Legislature and weaken the incoming governor and attorney general, both Democrats who are replacing Republicans.

Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul, as a soon-to-be member of the executive branch, has suggested on MSNBC that there will be multiple lawsuits challenging the legislature's supposed appropriation of executive authority, in violation of the "separation of powers" doctrine. (Kaul is succeeding Brad Schimel, while Tony Evers is succeeding Gov. Scott Walker.)

The "separation of powers" doctrine, while not in the Wisconsin Constitution, is implicit in the division of powers among the judicial, legislative and executive branches, and is a foundational principle of Wisconsin's tri-partite system of government.
Can courts stop the GOP's assault on the powers of Wisconsin's incoming Democratic officials?

The power grab might be reversed as a violation of the Wisconsin constitution. At very least it will keep the issue in front of the public, showing how the republican party intends to punish them for voting democrats into office.


 
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