Judge strikes down Wisconsin collective bargaining law

When power hungry Governor's anoint themselves king and get their crones to illegally pass laws behind
closed doors contrary to the states constitution all the while being financed by billionaire corporate backers, the people will eventually win.

MADISON, Wis. A Wisconsin judge has struck down Republican Gov. Scott Walker's legislation repealing most collective bargaining for public employees.

In a 33-page decision issued Thursday, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said she would freeze the legislation because GOP lawmakers on a committee broke the state's open meetings law in passing it March 9. The legislation limits collective bargaining to wages for all public employees in Wisconsin except for police and firefighters.

"It's what we were looking for," said Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat.

Ozanne sued to block the law after Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, filed a complaint saying that GOP legislative leaders had not given proper notice to the public in convening a conference committee of lawmakers from both houses to approve Walker's budget-repair bill.

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If I'm not mistaken, I read something about the state's Republicans criticizing her (the judge) a few days ago... she must not have received or accepted any of their money last election (ie: leans Democratic) lol

...now to see if the ruling holds lol

 

All I know about the judge is that she was appointed by Tommy Thompson.

 

The law is going to take effect after all, folks! When judges overstep their authority contrary to the states constitution and try to legislate from the bench, the people will eventually win:

June 14, 2011

MADISON, Wis. – A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court handed Republican Gov. Scott Walker a major victory Tuesday, ruling that a polarizing union law that strips most public employees of their collective bargaining rights could take effect.

In a 4-3 decision that included a blistering dissent, the court ruled that Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi overstepped her authority when she declared the law void. She sided with a lawsuit that claimed Republicans didn't provide proper public notice of a meeting that helped get the original legislation approved.
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In vacating Sumi's ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that the judge had "usurped the legislative power which the Wisconsin Constitution grants exclusively to the legislature." The court also rejected arguments that Republicans violated Wisconsin's open meetings law. "The doors of the Senate and Assembly were kept open to the press and members of the public ... access was not denied," according to the majority opinion.


Read more: Court allows Wisconsin's union law to take effect - Yahoo! News

 

That's just friggin great. Does ANYBODY elected to public office represent regular folks? We're completely screwed folks. Big business wins again. Absolutely sickening. Another insertion up the poop chute for the majority of America and another perk for the rich filth that owns the country. God, people are so friggin stupid...they deserve to be enslaved for 3 bucks an hour, the dumb s*its. Un friggin believable.

 

You are correct! The biggest business in the country won - GOVERNMENT. They can now actually try to control their budget.

 

They'll start with 2 bucks an hour....salaried...no doubt.

 

Question: When is it called "legislating from the bench"?

Answer: When the judge guilty of it disagrees with your views.

If I remember right, Sumi ruled against the law because proper notice wasn't given before the vote. But, I'm sure the state's Supreme Court overturned that verdict because they wouldn't even THINK of legislating from the bench themselves...

... my (_l_)

 

Actually, in WI, they just want the public sector unions to pay for a small portion of their tax payer funded benifit plan.
Thats pretty reasonable, if I were in charge, I would have just rounded up those fookin union strikers and gassed the whole gang of them. Unions are pondscum, even lower than Republicans. Too bad so many decent union members have no choice to join or not join, and are held hostage by corrupt union officials.

EDIT: I would gas them on pay per view.

 

Way to think out of the box Herr Jack.

 

See Jack, here is where you are misinformed again. I'm beginning to think that you are the poster boy for the Right wing. The union already agreed to pay a higher portion of both their retirement and their medical benefits but that wasn't what the power grab was about. It was about taking worker's rights away, specifically the right to collective bargaining. I also think that your Nazi death camp reference is appalling whether you intended it or not. It’s just hard to think of another reference to gassing large groups of people without thinking about the Nazis.

 

Thats all the reaction I get?

 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court called it, "[usurping] the legislative power which the Wisconsin Constitution grants exclusively to the legislature." By that ruling, the WI Supreme Court ruled that Sumi's decision was not based on Wisconsin law. Therefore, if you accept when a judge "legislates from the bench", you're also accepting the fact that the law was circumvented. That's something I'll disagree with that all day long....

 

You are aware that the 4 Republicans on the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided that it was OK for the other Republicans in the State legislature to not follow the State Constitution regarding proper notice being given before a bill is voted on right? If anyone violated the State's Constitution, it was the Republicans at both levels of government. But that's OK because....?

 

Yep, pretty much have to agree to disagree lol

My point was that judges, while supposedly politically neutral, are obviously not... and EVERY judge is capable of "legislating from the bench". As I see it, Sumi is more liberal and the Supreme Court is probably more conservative... it's just more politics lol

...and don't forget... laws can be political tools too...

 

You might deem it "political" just because the republicans said it was OK. They still have to follow the law and I think they did so impartially. Unlike Sumi.

 

Yeah, but I still say laws can be used politically too, and law-makers are easily corrupted... too easily, so when someone calls it "legislating from the bench" I have to ask if they understand the reasons why judges appear to do that. Laws are not absolute, they are temporary measures, and subject to changes periodically.

 

But you are ignoring the only provable fact that the Republicans did not wait the constitutionally mandated 48 hours before voting on the bill. Why is ignoring the constitution OK with you and apparently the rest of the Republicans in WI?

 

To paraphrase someone else's comment, see, moen phd, here is where you are misinformed again. I'm beginning to think that you are the poster boy for the left wing. You see, the court's ruling had absolutely nothing to do with the constitutionality of the law. It only had to do with the unconstitutionality of a left wing judge's (Sumi) ruling. To continue reading, "An avalanche of lawsuits is expected, because legal challenges couldn't be brought until the law took effect." Can you understand that or do I need to translate it for you?

 

You're such an arrogant idiot, I can't even begin to point out everything you are wrong about. That's why I ignore you every time you stick your nose into other people's conversations. You're just one of those people like Palin that are too stupid to know just how stupid you really are. You have my pity but you are not wasting my time.