Wisconsin Halts Union Law After Judge’s Ruling
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
NYT
CHICAGO – Officials in Wisconsin halted implementation of a law limiting collective bargaining rights for public workers on Thursday after a judge there ruled the law was not in effect because it had not been officially published.
The ruling by Judge Maryann Sumi of the Dane County Circuit Court in Madison, Wis., was her most forceful order yet in the legal dispute over the law.
The administration of Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, had started to carry out the law this week, but it agreed on Thursday to stop those efforts.
“While I believe the budget repair bill was legally published and is indeed law, given the most recent court action, we will suspend the implementation of it at this time,” said Mike Huebsch, the secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Administration.
(More here.)
NYT
CHICAGO – Officials in Wisconsin halted implementation of a law limiting collective bargaining rights for public workers on Thursday after a judge there ruled the law was not in effect because it had not been officially published.
The ruling by Judge Maryann Sumi of the Dane County Circuit Court in Madison, Wis., was her most forceful order yet in the legal dispute over the law.
The administration of Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, had started to carry out the law this week, but it agreed on Thursday to stop those efforts.
“While I believe the budget repair bill was legally published and is indeed law, given the most recent court action, we will suspend the implementation of it at this time,” said Mike Huebsch, the secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Administration.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
It's anyone's guess as to why Wisconsin Republicans decided to suddenly change their minds and comply with the court order. Maybe they concluded their poll numbers had dropped far enough, and provoking a Constitutional crisis would be too politically damaging. Maybe their lawyers concluded they did not actually have a strong case for ignoring the court order, and as such actually grew worried about being found in contempt of court. Whatever their rationale, they appear to have stepped back from the brink. At least for now.
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