This article is old, she won back in April. The news is that she is getting sworn in today August 1st.
Oh thank you. Any news on the impeachment threat? Or is that just hot air?
House (GOP) Leadership said they wouldn’t do it. Wisconsin’s path to removal is a bit different than at the federal level, too. It appears to be a non-starter.
This is huge for women’s health and reproductive freedom in Wisconsin, but it’s even bigger for democracy as a whole.
Her opponent was basically fine overturning election results and Trump narrowly lost a challenge in 2020 in Wisconsin that could have kept him in office.
Everyone wins today.
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Thank goodness for Tony Evers.
Thank goodness for people who turn up to vote.
Cries in Texas (We have a depressingly low voter turnout)
Nah but for real, it’s news like this that gives me hope. This was such a good headline to wake up to! I’m stoked for you guys in the North!
Turn this shit tf around! 🙌
DeSantis just took his playbook from Wisconsin in the first place.
Republican lawmakers have signaled that they will use their gerrymandered majorities to fight the court. Several Republican said in the run-up to Tuesday, before Protasiewicz even won, that they would consider impeaching her and removing her from office.
Republicans know they can’t win fairly and will cheat and steal to stay in power.
Welcome to politics, is this your first day?
This is not normal, don’t pretend that it is.
Normal and good are also not synonymous.
Shit like this has always how politics worked in the US, even back in the colonial days. The American Revolution was basically rich landowners getting huffy that they didn’t have all the power.
There’s more people saying the quiet part out loud, now, but it’s always been about getting one over on your opponent. It’d be nice if it was about representing the best interests of the people, and there are definitely quite a few who embody that… but they rarely get any kind of measurable power.
The only way to change that is to acknowledge it and resolve to change it.
So that’s a yes. Look up the electoral college, gerrymandering, first past the post vs preferential voting, look up why you don’t have randomised ballots.
If you really think trying to cheat for political gain is new…
If you have time, can you explain randomized ballots? I looked it up but got conflicting results.
Basically all the names on the ballot are randomised so people who number all the boxes in order of the ballot, 1-6 or however many, become statistically more equal across candidates. Many US states have the incumbant or primary state party always in the leading positions giving them an advantage with throwaway voters.
Thanks 😊
It’s just tiring how Republicans can openly subvert the will of the voters and face zero consequences for it, even from their own party.
Didn’t say it doesn’t suck
Upvote for dog 🐕
Yea, that is one hell of a cute dog.
Wait, what’s updog?
Not much, what up with u-dog?
Vote for updog
Up for vote dog! 🐶
what’s that?
I did my part 🫡
Then I thank you for it.
but Republicans have already signaled they’ll try impeaching judges.
Petty power-tripping troglodytes
Now maybe some justice for Brendan Dassey?
This is huge, and it sucks that it’s being overshadowed by the late afternoon news today.
