Updated: Uh Oh... WI Supreme Court Has Just Ruled For Walker On Collective Bargaining...

[WillyT]

Just saw this tweet:

wisconsinreport: Supreme Court rules in favor of GOP on budget bill, so collective bargaining law is in effect: http://1.usa.gov/kAyYCq

Link goes here: http://www.wicourts.gov/supreme/scopin.jsp?begin_date=06/14/2011&end_date=06/14/2011&SortBy=date

And this: http://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Attorney-says-court-release-in-union-case-coming-1423794.php

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An attorney who argued before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the case over whether Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining proposal legally passed the Legislature says he has been told the court will issue something in the case Tuesday.

Attorney Lester Pines says he called the Supreme Court clerk's office and was told that the court would be issuing something in the case. Pines says he has no idea what the court was going to issue.

A spokesman for the Supreme Court did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

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Fuck..

:mad:

:kick:

[midnight]

1. K&R

[Sportsguy]

2. Go Ahead, Dig A Deeper Hole You Assholes

Sorry about the language, but WTF?

[FiveGoodMen]

5. And then they'll throw US in it.

It's not our country anymore.

Our fellow 'Murkins gave it away.

[calimary]

3. Okay, so how many times do the bad guys get to win before we get ANY breaks at all?

I wonder what this nation will look like when the bad guys have finally run the table?

[WillyT]

4. And Isn't THIS Special...

PurrpleCatMama: RT @psecundaWrkProf: WI Collective bargaining decision: 4-3 in favor of allowing the law to go forward w/ Prosser casting the deciding vote.

:argh:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. Check out this part in this article which begins with:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/123859034.html

"Acting with unusual speed..............."

:banghead: :puke: :argh:

"Unusual speed"? Anybody here surprised???!!! :puke: Nobody who followed that Wisc SC race should be surprised.

[riderinthestorm]

26. Yup, just in time for tomorrow.... damn. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. What's tomorrow?

n/t

[riderinthestorm]

29. Gov. Walker has called WI lawmakers into a super special legislative session

Here's a link:

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4882319

It means that the Rethug controlled WI govt is going to try to pass any and all items that are currently "too hot" to handle in the regular manner. The WI Supreme Court decision indicates (imho) that they are trying to add more fuel to the fire...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

30. Ugh

:puke:

[PeaceNikki]

6. Given make up of court, this was expected. We need to GOTV on these recalls.

Please help these fine folks fight AFP, Citizens United and the Koch Brothers: http://www.wisdems.org/candidates

[Blue Owl]

7. Hail O Mighty Corporation

And Long Live King Focker

:sarcasm:

[aquart]

15. Koch makes you croak.

[WillyT]

8. Oh Shit !!! - The Rotunda Is Full Of Protesters... They Haven't Gotten the News Yet...

Not good.

:scared:

[WillyT]

14. They're Learning Of It Now...

5:19 - DougEricksonWSJ: News is just starting to spread among protesters that collective bargaining law is in effect. Lots of bummed out people.

[PeaceNikki]

9. Local Milwaukee news is reporting this now, too.

[Scuba]

10. The Kochs and AFP have assigned every single paid troll to blog on jsonline.com today. Whew...

... many never-before-seen names trying to defend the Walker poodles today.

Key words assigned by Kochs/AFP


Union Thug

Socialist

Taker

brain dead liberal skumbags

leaches


Man, they're nasty today. No arguements of substance, just vitriol and talking points.

[Warrior Dash]

11. The argument does not appear to have been a strong one from a legal standpoint.

[PeaceNikki]

13. Did you read Judge Sumi's 33 page decision?

http://www.thewheelerreport.com/releases/May11/0526/0526sumi.pdf

[Warrior Dash]

16. Thanks for the link...

On page 27, Judge Sumi provides the counter argument to her own decision: The public is not served by keeping this legislation in limbo

Inasmuch as the Plaintiffs created the state of "limbo," their complaint was specious at best and dishonest at worst.

[WillyT]

12. I'm Guessing This Is From The Dissent...

Comment From Joanne Brown
From Justice Abrahamson: In hastily reaching judgment, Justice Patience D. Roggensack, Justice Annette K. Ziegler, and Justice Michael J. Gableman author an order, joined by Justice David T. Prosser, lacking a reasoned, transparent analysis and incorporating numerous errors of law and fact. This kind of order seems to open the court unnecessarily to the charge that the majority has reached a pre-determined conclusion not based on the facts and the law, which undermines the majority's ultimate decision.

And...

Comment From Joanne Brown
Also from J. Abrahamson: At first glance, the order appears to provide some support for broad conclusions reached on fundamental and complex issues of law. But on even casual reading, the explanations are clearly disingenuous, based on disinformation. ¶81 Justice Prosser's concurrence is longer than the order. The concurrence consists mostly of a statement of happenings. It is long on rhetoric and long on story-telling that appears to have a partisan slant. Like the order, the concurrence reaches unsupported conclusions.

All of the previous tweets can be found in here: http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=33792

:kick:

[Brickbat]

17. So...are people going to follow an amoral law?

Time to figure out which side you're on.

[Imajika]

18. Well, what would people do about it exactly?

Most Wisconsin public employees now no longer have the collective bargaining rights they once had. The avenue to fix this is to get out and vote for Democrats in the assembly, state senate and governors office. Once we have all 3 again we can reverse this legislation. Till then though, this is the law of the state of Wisconsin. A quick look at the ruling makes it pretty clear the 4 conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a very political ruling and are just going to slap down or reverse any other challenges to this law.

[Brickbat]

22. Direct action.

Relying on elections isn't helpful anymore.

[WillyT]

23. Wisconsin General Strike... Shut Down The State !!!

:shrug:

[Brigid]

20. Ed Schultz is going to go absolutely nuclear!

I'm almost afraid to watch his show tonight!

[WillyT]

21. Jesus... Me Too !!!

:scared:

I wonder if one can get suspended for going nuclear on air???

:evilgrin:

:bounce:

:hi:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

31. Did he go nuke? I was downtown that evening and missed it. -nt

[Taverner]

24. How could that happen? I mean, our party on a national level has fought so hard for unions...

Isn't that what unions have been saying???

http://bloggingblue.com/2011/05/24/labor-unions-cut-financial-support-to-national-democrats/

[davidpdx]

25. The only upside to this

is that it could help fuel energy behind the recall of some of the legislators.

[brooklynite]

27. Not surprising at all...

At it's base, the challenge against this law wasn't it's content but the process followed. In the most optimistic scenario possible, even with the recall votes, the Legislature would likely have been able to re-pass the bill.