New Voting Laws Publicly Applauded by Milwaukee Mayor
Barrett spoke and was joined by community leaders from Citizens Action of Wisconsin, ACLU of Wisconsin, One Wisconsin [Institute] and Wisconsin League of Women Voters. [Milwaukee Courier]
Barrett spoke and was joined by community leaders from Citizens Action of Wisconsin, ACLU of Wisconsin, One Wisconsin [Institute] and Wisconsin League of Women Voters. [Milwaukee Courier]
One Wisconsin Institute and the Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund last year challenged a host of election laws in federal court, including voter ID. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Activists led by the group One Wisconsin [Institute] have been fighting the law for years [Courthouse News Service]
At One Wisconsin [Institute], executive director Scot Ross hailed Peterson’s decision as a “huge victory.” [Wisconsin Gazette]
Both the state Attorney General’s Office and the groups that brought the lawsuit, One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin, have appealed Peterson’s ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago. “We will let the court’s decision speak for itself when it wrote, ‘Defendants have not made a strong […] [Wisconsin State Journal]
But One Wisconsin Institute, one of the liberal groups challenging the election laws, noted Peterson had written he did not expect the state to prevail on appeal. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
“Wisconsin, in presidential election years, has the second-highest turnout in America,” said Scot Ross. [Washington Post]
Scot Ross... pointed out that an overwhelming majority of Republican leaders in Wisconsin are members of Generation X. [Capital Times]
The first case, One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen considered both Wisconsin’s voter ID laws and the restrictions the State placed on early voting. [Huffington Post]
A narrower voter ID ruling in the other case, brought by the liberal One Wisconsin Institute, remains in place for now. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was joined by community leaders on Sunday to discuss plans they hope to implement before the November election. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Peterson’s recent ruling, in One Wisconsin Institute vs. Thomsen, makes it easier to obtain a free ID. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
One Wisconsin Institute has long argued that changes to the voting laws were intentionally designed to make it more difficult to vote in Wisconsin. [Lakeland Times]
One Wisconsin Institute... challenged the voter ID law... and a series of other voting-related laws passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that followed. [Wisconsin State Journal]
The suit was brought by two liberal groups, One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund. Those groups won most of their claims, but this week filed an appeal on the parts they lost. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
At One Wisconsin [Institute], executive director Scot Ross said Walker tried to make it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat. [Wisconsin Gazette]
Friday's decision was a huge victory for Wisconsin voters and we are committed to fully protecting the right to vote from partisan politicians like Gov. Walker. [Courthouse News Service]
Walker has shown he will do whatever he can to rig our elections by denying legal voter access to ballot box based on their race or partisan affiliation, so this filing to keep these unconstitutional laws in place is not unexpected. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, Inc., challenged the voter ID law and other Republican-imposed election restrictions. [Associated Press]
Lawyers representing One Wisconsin Institute... and a group of individual voters filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. [Capital Times]
"We argued Gov. Walker made it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat, and the judge agreed," lead plaintiff and One Wisconsin [Institute] Director Scot Ross said in a statement. [Courthouse News Service]
“We argued Gov. Walker made it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat, and the judge agreed,” said Scot Ross, executive director of the One Wisconsin Institute. [Wisconsin State Journal]
We argued Gov. Walker made it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat, and the judge agreed. [Associated Press]
Peterson’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit brought by two liberal groups — One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc. [Wisconsin Gazette]
Scot Ross, director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, an arm of One Wisconsin Institute, cheered the ruling. [Associated Press]
"We argued Gov. Walker made it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat, and the judge agreed," Scot Ross, director of One Wisconsin [Institute], said. [Associated Press]
"That line between campaign and the actual public office of the attorney general's office is being erased," said Jenni Dye, research director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
A spokesman for One Wisconsin Institute, one of the two groups which filed the challenge, hailed Peterson’s ruling as “a huge win not only for the plaintiffs but for democracy itself.” [Huffington Post]
According to... One Wisconsin Now, Kelly was general counsel for the Kern Family Foundation whose founders... have made individual contributions totalling $220,000 to Walker. [Capital Times]
The state DOJ previously asked Adelman to put the lawsuit on hold because a similar lawsuit brought by... One Wisconsin Institute made its way through the courts, challenging elements of the Voter ID law. [Wisconsin State Journal]
That lawsuit by two liberal groups, One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, also challenges limits on early voting. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Back in Wisconsin, the liberal group One Wisconsin Now issued a press release calling Clarke "extremist, bombastic and incompetent." [Capital Times]
Mike Browne said in an email to The Badger Herald that Gannon’s proposal would allow guns in places where they should not be like schools, hospitals and private businesses. [Badger Herald]
One Wisconsin Now dismissed Ryan’s poverty tour as supplication for his past comments dividing the country into “makers and takers.” [Racine Journal Times]
"Gov. Walker is tooling around the state on our dime hearing from an exclusive audience recruited to tell him what he wants to hear," said One Wisconsin Now. [Capital Times]
Jenni Dye, who first made her Twitter account public during the Wisconsin protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 anti-union law, considers that moment a “sweet spot in the emergence of social media.” [Moyers & Company]
"It sure is 'Midwest nice' of Gov. Walker to give Republicans a place to drown their sorrows over Donald Trump being their presidential nominee." [Associated Press]
[One Wisconsin Now] said the initiative is an effort to promote Walker's political agenda through litigation and "propaganda." [Capital Times]
“All the lawsuits and propaganda they file isn’t going to change the fact that Gov. Walker has failed the people of Wisconsin over and over and over again,” said Scot Ross with One Wisconsin Now. [Associated Press]
Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said the new center and the Bradley Foundation don't represent the state's citizens and their needs. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
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]
Spiva represents two liberal groups, One Wisconsin Institute... as well as people who have had difficulty getting photo IDs. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
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]
You ought to be free to love whomever you want, and you ought not be denied the same rights as others because you want to marry that person. It’s just common sense. [Capital Times]
Budgets are about choices and Gov. Walker and the Republican Legislature chose to give a $300 million tax break to millionaires and billionaires. [Associated Press]
This decision protecting the rights of women is a powerful reminder of why courts matter. [Wisconsin Gazette]
"He certainly checks Bradley's biggest boxes," said Scot Ross, head of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, which closely tracks the foundation. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
The lawsuit launched by liberal groups One Wisconsin Institute... argues that Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-led Legislature enacted changes in state election law to make it harder for people of color to vote [Isthmus]
Liberal group One Wisconsin Institute has challenged the law in another lawsuit, but that action is still pending and the ID requirement was in effect for the February state primary election and April's presidential primary. [Associated Press]
Republican suppression strategy on voting rights is to pass laws making voting as difficult as possible for disfavored classes of voters... This is what is being addressed in... One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol. [MAL Contends]