The polling argument today is back at another Wisconsin voting rights trial, One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol (U.S. District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin (Case 15-cv-324). [MAL Contends]
"These DMV statistics show there's a disturbing pattern of voters being denied the franchise," said Mike Browne, deputy director of the liberal One Wisconsin Institute, one of the plaintiffs. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
People who die waiting for a state-issued voter ID are recorded as a "customer-initiated cancellation" by the state Department of Motor Vehicles. [Capital Times]
Sen. Ron Johnson failed to appear at a hearing today on the nomination of Donald Schott to fill a vacancy on the Federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
In testimony in the federal voting rights case, experts agreed that, “it’s working” when it comes to the campaign by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled legislature to suppress votes.
A federal judge heard testimony Tuesday from Wisconsin residents who have faced difficulties obtaining photo IDs for themselves or family members. [Capital Times]
Wisconsin election laws on trial in federal court this week likely violate the federal Voting Rights Act. [Wisconsin State Journal]
In federal court yesterday, the plaintiffs offered testimony from a former high level Republican staffer who revealed that Republican state senators were “giddy” at the prospect of passing a voter ID law.
A federal trial for the first time introduces evidence of the intent of Republicans to use photo voter ID to block voters by citing the words of Republican legislators [MAL Contends]
Plaintiffs in the suit include One Wisconsin Institute, the research arm of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Wisconsin State Journal]
State defendants called the GOP voter laws fair as the liberal [One Wisconsin Institute] challenges voter IDs and other laws like a ten-day limit on early voting. [Hudson Star-Observer]
Scott Walker’s Republican legislative allies were “giddy” at the prospect that a radical rewrite of voting laws would benefit their political prospects. [The Nation]
Liberal Group One Wisconsin Institute social justice group Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund and 10 voters filed the lawsuit last June. [Associated Press]
Plaintiffs are arguing that restrictions adopted by Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP-controlled legislature were meant to and have the effect of making it more difficult to vote.
Todd Allbaugh – the first witness One Wisconsin Institute called – claims lawmakers adopted new requirements to discriminate against traditionally Democratic voters. [Courthouse News Service]
The lawsuit was brought by the liberal group One Wisconsin Institute Inc., social justice group Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund and 10 voters. [Associated Press]
The lawsuit was brought by One Wisconsin Institute which argues state officials intentionally meant to make it harder for minorities to cast ballots. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Liberal group One Wisconsin Institute, Inc. filed the lawsuit last June. U.S. District Judge James Peterson has scheduled a bench trial to begin Monday in Madison. [Associated Press]
One Wisconsin Institute executive director Scot Ross... accused the Walker administration of repeatedly manipulating voting rules to gain a partisan advantage. [Associated Press]
A judge determined One Wisconsin Institute could keep alive their arguments that voters should be able to use a broader range of IDs for voting. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
The move comes just days before the state goes to trial over a challenge to Wisconsin's Voter ID law by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, which claims that obtaining a state ID is so difficult some would-be eligible voters are simply giving up. [WKOW-TV]
The emergency rule is set to take effect on Friday, days before a federal court will hear arguments in a lawsuit against the state's voter ID law brought by the liberal One Wisconsin Institute. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Institute Executive Director Scot Ross issued a statement saying the group’s attorneys were reviewing the emergency rule. [Associated Press]
This is an administration that time and again has manipulated the rules on voting to gain partisan advantage.
New polling finds overwhelming support among Wisconsin voters for holding fair hearings and a timely vote on the President’s SCOTUS nominee.
When Ron Johnson refuses to do his job, our courts can’t do theirs. And that means people in Wisconsin and across the nation are being denied justice.
It’s a yes or no answer to the question of whether Sen. Ron Johnson is doing his job, and we’ve launched a new site to provide people with the answer.
If anyone should have to wait to fill a judicial vacancy until after the next election, it’s Scott Walker, and if anyone should tell him to do so it should be Ron Johnson.
By refusing to do their job and act on nominees to fill vacancies on the federal court, Sen. Ron Johnson and his fellow Republicans are hurting the judicial system and undermining our democracy. [Wisconsin State Journal]
The only fraud in Wisconsin elections has been proven: Gov. Walker and the Republican state legislature changed the laws for partisan, political gain.
It’s clear that students were targeted with significant restrictions on their IDs and the higher burden they now have in accessing their right to vote. [The Guardian]
Voter ID laws may make it harder for our generation to vote — and they certainly need to be addressed. But regardless, millennial Wisconsinites are fighting back to make sure our generation’s voice is heard Tuesday, in November, and every day in between. [Capital Times]
As presidential candidates travel to Wisconsin, one thing they’re quickly noticing is Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson refusing to do his job.
Based on current projections by One Wisconsin Institute, a nonprofit organization that conducts research on student loan debt, it will take 21 years or so to repay this amount. [Workforce]
Will Sen. Ron Johnson continue to be a part of the problem, or will he become part of the solution?
Now it is up to Sen. Ron Johnson and his colleagues in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate to meet their responsibilities to consider Pres. Obama’s nominee.
This case is just one example of how our courts matter and the justices who sit on them make decisions that can have dramatic impacts on our lives.
Allowing our courts to become deadlocked for petty political reasons would be unprecedented. It’s time Sen. Ron Johnson stop playing games and start doing his job.
There has been a comprehensive effort to make voting more difficult for targeted populations by GOP politicians attempting to gain an unfair partisan advantage.
One Wisconsin institute, Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, and six Wisconsin residents filed a complaint against a series of provisions that Wisconsin has made since 2011 to its voting and election laws. [State of Elections]
Peterson wrote that the One Wisconsin Institute had "plausibly alleged that the decision to exclude certain forms of ID was impermissibly arbitrary." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Michael Grebe called draining hundreds of millions in public tax dollars away from public schools for unaccountable private schools an “accomplishment.”
They argued a number of provisions Republicans have added to state election law violate the federal Voting Rights Act, the First Amendment and the equal protection clause. [Associated Press]
Updated research exposing the right-wing Bradley Foundation’s spending over $108 million in support of education privatization from provides some answers.
The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation is among the largest funders of the right-wing propaganda machine in the country. Their influence in Wisconsin cannot be underestimated.
The latest package of bills includes a measure making student and senior citizen voter registration more difficult.
Republican leaders, with the support of Scott Walker, are unveiling their latest scheme to manipulate election & ethics laws to gain unfair, partisan advantage.
One Wisconsin Institute has shown that those with student loan debt are more likely to rent than buy a home and more likely to buy a used car than a new one. [Capital Times]
For too many Wisconsinites, the $1.3 trillion student loan debt crisis continues unabated, burdening their family finances and holding back our economy. [Capital Times]
Gudex and his fellow Republicans need to remember they’re supposed to be working for us, not covering Walker’s backside, and resist the temptation to allow partisanship to overcome common sense. [Capital Times]