The high court’s new majority may strike down the state’s abortion ban and gerrymanders, but Republicans have already signaled they’ll try impeaching judges.
  • oehm@midwest.socialEnglish
    1043·
    2 years ago

    This article is old, she won back in April. The news is that she is getting sworn in today August 1st.

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        House (GOP) Leadership said they wouldn’t do it. Wisconsin’s path to removal is a bit different than at the federal level, too. It appears to be a non-starter.

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    812·
    2 years ago

    This is huge for women’s health and reproductive freedom in Wisconsin, but it’s even bigger for democracy as a whole.

    Her opponent was basically fine overturning election results and Trump narrowly lost a challenge in 2020 in Wisconsin that could have kept him in office.

    Everyone wins today.

        • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
          8·
          2 years ago

          Cries in Texas (We have a depressingly low voter turnout)

          Nah but for real, it’s news like this that gives me hope. This was such a good headline to wake up to! I’m stoked for you guys in the North!

          Turn this shit tf around! 🙌

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          2·
          2 years ago

          Normal and good are also not synonymous.

          Shit like this has always how politics worked in the US, even back in the colonial days. The American Revolution was basically rich landowners getting huffy that they didn’t have all the power.

          There’s more people saying the quiet part out loud, now, but it’s always been about getting one over on your opponent. It’d be nice if it was about representing the best interests of the people, and there are definitely quite a few who embody that… but they rarely get any kind of measurable power.

          The only way to change that is to acknowledge it and resolve to change it.

        • Cabrio@lemmy.world
          511·
          2 years ago

          So that’s a yes. Look up the electoral college, gerrymandering, first past the post vs preferential voting, look up why you don’t have randomised ballots.

          If you really think trying to cheat for political gain is new…

            • Cabrio@lemmy.world
              11·
              2 years ago

              Basically all the names on the ballot are randomised so people who number all the boxes in order of the ballot, 1-6 or however many, become statistically more equal across candidates. Many US states have the incumbant or primary state party always in the leading positions giving them an advantage with throwaway voters.