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Wisconsin Governor and Cronies Learning that THE LAW Also Applies to Them

By Andis Kaulins

As reported by the Associated Press, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi, the same judge that issued an emergency restraining order to block the Wisconsin Secretary of State from publishing a legally challenged legislative bill denying collective bargaining to public workers while she considered the question of whether Wisconsin Republicans had violated Wisconsin's open meetings law in passing the bill, now has declared that the bill was not properly published by the trick of having a different state bureau publish the bill. The governor was reportedly ready to rely on that trick in treating the bill as properly published.

We commented previously on the despicable situation in Wisconsin. Apparently, some Republicans and the apparently incompetent governor in that State think that the law does not apply to them and that they can willfully ignore court orders and bypass such orders with tricks, virtually treating the courts as irrelevant.

It is time to get these kinds of people out of public office, regardless of State or political party. America does not need them.

Full post as published by LawPundit on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).