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Let's talk about the Wisconsin Supreme Court....

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Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about the Wisconsin Supreme Court....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again.

0:03.0

So today we are going to talk about Wisconsin

0:06.0

and the state Supreme Court in Wisconsin

0:10.0

and Janet Proteus Seowitzits, if you remember, the commercials.

0:15.8

So it wasn't that long ago, we talked about how the election for Supreme Court Justice in Wisconsin was going to be

0:25.0

important. It was going to be consequential. There were a lot of things that

0:29.2

are going to be coming before that court that matter and the seat that was up for grabs

0:35.5

was a seat that could switch the majority. It was conservative if

0:39.8

Prote say what's won well it became liberal. She won. Now, within 24 hours of her being sworn in, a suit was filed.

0:55.8

That suit, it alleges partisan gerrymandering

1:00.1

throughout the state of Wisconsin

1:01.9

in favor of the Republican Party.

1:04.0

This is something that would have gone before a bunch of

1:08.0

conservatives had this election gone the other way.

1:13.0

Within 48 hours, the liberal justices on the court decided to relieve the director of the state's court system of their duties.

1:27.0

Fire them.

1:30.0

That move was a surprise to pretty much everybody,

1:34.4

apparently including the Chief Justice, a conservative,

1:37.6

who called it a raw exercise of overreaching power.

1:43.6

All that occurred in like the first 48 hours.

1:47.2

If you go back and watch that video, there's a bunch of things that are coming up that are going

1:52.3

to be very important, especially because it is incredibly

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