Wisconsin Legislature slated to pass Republican-backed bills today that would prohibit employers, government from mandating the coronavirus vaccine and give the Legislature, rather than @GovEvers control over the state's share of the federal stimulus bill
“The intent behind them seems to be pandering toward the same kind of anti-science, anti-public health position that’s out there at the worst time possible.”
“It seems like the Democrats want to have a piggy bank where they can choose to give the money with no oversight, no transparency, no ability to judge whether it’s the best decision until after the money is out the door.”
With time running out, and in the wake of a stinging defeat before the U.S. Supreme Court, @realDonaldTrump makes his case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court at 12 noon today
.@realDonaldTrump has asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take his appeal over judge's ruling today against his lawsuit seeking seeking to overturn Wisconsin's election results
The court previously refused to take the case before it was first heard in circuit court
@realDonaldTrump Trump also filed an appeal in state appeals court
So the Supreme Court could deny his request or, in light of Monday's Electoral College vote, decide to take the case away from the lower appeals court and decide quickly
The court has yet to respond to Trump's request
@realDonaldTrump Trump asks for final resolution of the case not before Monday, when the Electoral College votes, but before Jan. 6, the date that Congress meets to accept the electoral votes cast by the states
Republican chair of committee holding an investigatory hearing into the presidential election releases list of witnesses who will testify tomorrow, led by conservative talk show host @DanODonnellShow and someone named Scott McDonald
@DanODonnellShow@samcdonell Others testifying include former conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, Republican @WI_Elections commissioners Dean Knudson and Bob Spindell and "Concerned Wisconsin Residents"
Worth noting that the state's top elections official, Meagan Wolfe, is not on the invite list, nor is any other staff at the GOP-created @WI_Elections which administers elections
The board is bipartisan, but only 2 GOP members are on the invite list
@AP Federal court hearing, which the judge said yesterday he wanted to start promptly at 9 a.m., is delayed 15 minutes already after @realDonaldTrump attorneys can't connect to Zoom link
Federal court judge in @realDonaldTrump lawsuit in Wisconsin says he hopes hearing starting at 9 a.m. tomorrow will be over in the morning
That's important because a state court judge has a 1:30 p.m. hearing in Trump's other case that would be delayed if federal court isn't done
@realDonaldTrump The judge declines request from @GovEvers attorney to first rule on whether he has jurisdiction to hear the case before proceeding with the hearing
The same issue is at play in another federal lawsuit brought by allies of Trump in Wisconsin that is pending
@realDonaldTrump@GovEvers Judge Brett Ludwig tells @realDonaldTrump and defense attorneys that he wants to rule quickly following tomorrow's hearing on Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn election results: