"It's telling that it took until the second weekend of October for the state's leading Republicans to be dragged onto a stage in Wisconsin to been seen with the party's presidential nominee." [Associated Press]
One Wisconsin Institute asked a federal court Tuesday to suspend Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law, citing “rampant problems in implementation” of the law. [WEAC]
Transcripts of the recordings were entered into evidence Tuesday in a federal court challenge to the voter ID law brought by the liberal group One Wisconsin Institute. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Yesterday, the voting-rights group One Wisconsin [Institute] filed a new brief asking Peterson to block the law before the November election. [The Nation]
James Peterson, who in July found a host of Wisconsin's election laws violate voting rights. The lawsuit was brought by the liberal groups One Wisconsin [Institute] and Citizen Action Education Fund. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
U.S. District Judge James Peterson has scheduled a hearing for Oct. 12 to consider a motion filed late Tuesday by the liberal group One Wisconsin Institute. [Capital Times]
Some of the remarks captured in the recordings contradict Peterson’s July court order, issued in response to a legal challenge to the voter ID law by the liberal group One Wisconsin Institute. [Wisconsin State Journal]
The state is in violation of a federal court order ... the legislature ought to return and immediately suspend the voter ID law. [Capital Times]
The motion from One Wisconsin Institute argued that the state is "nowhere close" to being in compliance with a federal court order detailing how the law should be administered. [Associated Press]
Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, said Johnson was "channeling his inner Donald Trump" with those comments. [Capital Times]
The public interest demands the truth be exposed and the public officials involved in these affairs be held to account for their actions. [Capital Times]
State Rep. Eric Genrich, D-Green Bay, and liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Institute are pushing back against the city. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]
In ruling on a lawsuit brought by One Wisconsin Institute... Peterson in July found the state’s process for providing IDs to people who don’t have birth certificates violates voting rights. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Gov. Walker and the legislature must convene immediately to put the unconstitutional voter ID law on hold for this election. [Capital Times]
Scot Ross of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, described it as a stunt ... He said the governor was basically telling student borrowers to “call a bank.” [Kenosha News]
One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross spoke to media following Gov. Scott Walker's news conference. [Wisconsin Eye]
Scot Ross said he didn't believe these steps would be enough to address the growing burden of student loan debt in the state. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
One Wisconsin Now told reporters the expansion likely won't help anyone because students and recent graduates typically lack collateral and a credit history. [Associated Press]
The future of Act 23 is in the hands of federal appellate and circuit court judges in Frank v. Walker and One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol. [WisContext]
Ari Berman will be at Madison’s Goodman Community for free event cosponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Wisconsin Book Festival, as well as... One Wisconsin Institute. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Now questioned why Weiss hasn't been more visible, noting DFI's website doesn't appear to offer any contact information. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Institute, which filed the lawsuit to end the restrictions, joined UWGB students in calling for expanded early voting in Green Bay. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]
Scot Ross, of the liberal One Wisconsin Now, objected strenuously to the inclusion of the questions in the poll. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
The Democratic senator was joined on the call by One Wisconsin Now research director Jenni Dye and Legal Progress vice president Michele Jawando. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Now said Wisconsin Club for Growth spent attack money on Harsdorf’s recall opponent. [River Falls Journal]
The One Wisconsin Institute decision removed two limitations on in-person early voting. [Superior Telegram]
Analiese Eicher, program director at One Wisconsin Institute, a nonprofit focusing on voting rights, said the goal is to have expanded voting hours. [Wisconsin Public Radio]
Ron Johnson is suggesting that poor single moms take jobs in the day care centers watching their children, a practice Wisconsin restricted seven years ago. [Associated Press]
“What he’s saying is, ‘I got him this far, but I’m not going to get him any further,’ ” Pines told reporters on a conference call organized by the liberal One Wisconsin Institute. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
One Wisconsin [Institute] executive director Scot Ross also praised the court for keeping what protections there are in place, but the American Civil Liberties Union is crying foul. [Courthouse News Service]
Mike Browne said the organization challenged the election laws because it believed they unconstitutionally infringed on the voting rights of minorities, senior citizens and students. [Eau Claire Leader-Telegram]
"The willingness of Scott Walker to compromise in this way shows that this was never about fraud," said Scot Ross of One Wisconsin [Institute]. [NBC News]
Scot Ross said he would like to see early voting held at remote locations during the entire time early voting is conducted. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
The reason the 7th Circuit was unanimous, is that thanks to the One Wisconsin Now litigation, Wisconsin is going to make it easy for people to get a temporary id from the DMV. [Election Law Blog]
“There have been so many anti-voting laws in this state, it’s hard to keep track,” Analiese Eicher, the program director for the group One Wisconsin Now, told The Nation. [The Nation]
One Wisconsin Institute said in a statement that the decision was “a clear repudiation of the five-year crusade of Governor Walker.” [Washington Post]
“We hope municipalities across the state will quickly move forward in offering expanded in-person absentee voting hours.” [Wisconsin State Journal]
“We know Ron Johnson graduated from college 40 years ago, but we assumed it was from a university here on planet Earth,” quipped Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now. [Capital Times]
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel dusted off an old and discredited “states’ rights” argument in his most recent court filing in the One Wisconsin Institute voting case. [Urban Milwaukee]
Attorney General Brad Schimel is dropping his attempt to prevent Milwaukee and Madison from starting early voting next month in a move that begins to clarify how the presidential election will be conducted in Wisconsin. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
On Monday, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused without comment to stay a Wisconsin district court opinion in One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen. [Daily Signal]
But a panel of the court on Monday declined to stay Peterson's ruling. The appeals judges didn't explain their rationale. The lawsuit was brought by One Wisconsin Institute. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Fighting Bob Fest 2016 is less than a month away... Among the other speakers will be Scot Ross, who has feverishly campaigned for college loan reform. [Capital Times]
"Here’s a big result from our lawsuit: Gov. Walker doesn’t get to decide who votes," said Scot Ross. [Capital Times]
"Here’s a big result from our lawsuit: Governor Walker doesn’t get to decide who votes," said the statement from Scot Ross. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Before he was Attorney General, Brad Schimel said elected officials should be able to help their campaign donors, and this latest action shows he wasn’t kidding. [Wisconsin State Journal]
One Wisconsin [Institute] headed up the underlying challenge, taking up the mantle for older black citizens born in the South who were never issued a birth certificate. [Courthouse News Service]
The ruling by Judge Peterson, in One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen, makes it easier to obtain a free ID. [Urban Milwaukee]
A narrower voter ID ruling in the other case, brought by the liberal One Wisconsin Institute, remains in place for now. [Wisconsin State Journal]
The ruling by Peterson, in One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen, makes it easier to obtain a free ID. [Wisconsin Gazette]