Jay Weber Show transcript 8/7/23 7:10m
My friends....it took all of three days for the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s new leftist majority to make it clear that they have no intention of following the court’s long-standing precedents, or of playing fairly when it comes to the administration of the courts- or the Wisconsin court system.
And I’ll admit: I never expected that they’d decide the cases fairly, or based on the actual law or constitutions-
We cannot expect that from leftist judges in America, anymore.
But I admit that I never expected them to attack the court system-itself- or to make such an overt ‘take over’ attempt right out of the box.
Bradley, Protasiewicz, Karofsky, and Dallet aren’t even pretending to be fair and balanced.
They have decided to display-for all too see- what sort of left-wing activists they are.
I suppose they want to show all of the left-wing activist groups and donors that their investment was worth it: you paid for an activist supreme court- you’re going to get one.
The early actions of these four women are simply shameful. They were clearly plotting in secret-even before Janet Protasiewicz was sworn in- to put a political partisan atop the state court system the moment they took over.
And-they were clearly plotting to undercut and steal power away from the court’s chief justice, as well.
Because- less than three days into their majority- these four were voting for a bogus new ‘shared power’ set up- that essentially takes any decision-making powers away from Annette Ziegler-the current chief justice- because she’s a conservative.
It's a move that is seriously shady and scummy...by what Ziegler deemed ‘rogue justices.
Conservative justices had to put up with having Shirley Abrahamson be the chief justice for decades and decades- controlling things. Only a voter-approved referendum allowed conservative justices to get rid of Abrahamson as chief justice. They followed the process to make the change.
Conservatives always need to follow the rules and honor the system and the process.
But once the democrats lose power- we know they toss the rules and niceties right out the window-and do whatever it takes to regain power.
So- screw decades of operating procedures that were carefully crafted and adopted decades ago. The leftists managed to trick voters into giving them a one-judge majority on the state supreme court-and so all bets are off now.
It's time for their activists to burn down the system-to ensure current and future power.
It’s anyone’s guess as to where this leaves the new rules, if the chief justice and the conservative members won’t honor them as legitimate...
And the liberal hag’s first move-to fire Randy Krosnick as the head administrator of the state court system- may also be up in the air
Meanwhile- both Robin Vos and Devin LeMahieu said on Friday that the liberal’s move to appoint a new court director was unconstitutional.
They didn’t point to Krosnick’s firing as illegal-so much as the pointed to the person the liberal justices chose to put in charge.
They appointed a woman who is currently a sitting judge- when the law prohibits anyone who is currently a judge from holding a different public office.
But here’s how messed up this now is: if lawsuits are filed over this- it would ultimately be up to the state supreme court do decide the outcome: the state supreme court that these four liberal hags now control-
So, they can just rule in their own favor, and know it. This is law breaking with impunity-if they want to go that route. And i assume they do.
And so far, the four hags aren’t even feeling the need to explain themselves, publicly.
They’ve all been unavailable for comment since last Wednesday or so when they started to put all of this in the works- and exposed themselves as having been colluding in secret....
It’s remarkable, folks: in their very first actions as members of the new majority-these four women are showing themselves to be devious and untrustworthy.
How is that helpful? How is that a good look for them?
I know they are ideals-but I’m a little surprised that four smart women like this are being so politically and strategically stupid-and are making it so clear-right off the bat- what partisans and dishonest actors they intend to be....in these positions of power.
After all- Anne Walsh Bradley is up for re-election in 2025-and so it’s not like they have a lock on the majority for the next decade, or anything. They might not want to prove that they are the screeching extremists that we conservatives say they are-right off the bat.
This is an ugly look
Their very first move was to fire a proven veteran who has been very capably running the state’s court system -and in a non-partisan manner- in order to install their own -partisan- manager.
That was their-first move: to make it clear that they had their own stooge in place to manipulate and manage the inner workings of the state courts and court-related boards.
Then they moved to strip the chief justice of most of her administrative powers-simply because that person is currently a conservative. It was great when Shirley Abrahamson had all of those powers for decades-but now that they are in a conservative’s hands- things need to change.
The left needs to cheat and change the rules. They have now assured that on a new committee of three people-two of the three people-at least-will be liberals.
Also-very importantly- I mentioned this Thursday: they also are taking away the chief justice’s authority over scheduling so-called original actions-
This is the lawsuits in which complainants want the supreme court to reach down and take up their case directly without going thru the lower courts first-
I predicted on Thursday that these leftists were going to want to rush thru cases on abortion, electoral maps, etc.
Well- the chief justice has influence over those decisions and the scheduling of those cases. The four leftists just took that authority away from Annette Ziegler and put it in their own hands-so they can force those cases forward.
This is some scummy, lawless stuff, and it’s all being done behind closed doors with the four liberal hag not even having the decency to explain themselves to the public.
This is justice?
This is honesty?
These actions reflect positively on Janet Protasiewicz? Anne Walsh Bradley? Rebecca Dallet and Jill Karofsky?
They’ve been in the majority for five days and have already proven to be the extreme left wing activist hags whom I’ve been insisting they are.
I like to be proven correct-but this is really something. There’s a stupidity to their arrogance here: meeting in secret. Proving themselves to be slippery, dishonest actors on day one.
Wow.
As Jessica McBride correctly put it: it took them only about 48 hours to violate the state constitution, state law, and supreme court rules- twice.
This is how they are choosing to launch their new majority?
Then katie bar the door-because this is going to get ugly. We have a rogue leftist court on the march, folks.