Wisconsin Examiner
Election litigation in Wisconsin can feel like playing ‘whack-a-mole’
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Wisconsin garnered national attention for holding an in-person election at the onset of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 when other states were delaying elections or moving them online. The job of an elections attorney became all-consuming.
More than a year and a divisive presidential election later, the Wisconsin Legislature is pushing through a host of bills that would affect future elections and invite legal battles because of potential violations of state and federal law, as well as constitutional problems.
“I think it can feel a little bit like whack-a-mole for people who are litigating these issues,” says Mel Barnes, staff attorney with Law Forward, a progressive law firm spearheading legal fights often on the opposite side of the lawyers who have repeatedly taken the side of Republican legislators at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL). “
May 3, 2021
Once again, a high school in Woke Madison finds itself accused of racial segregation and its principal apologizing.
This week, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty sent a letter to Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Carlton Jenkins, warning about the practices of Madison West High School. According to the Milwaukee-based public interest law firm, WILL’s letter follows a school district email inviting high school families to discuss “all the police brutality and violence that is going on.”
The school email asserts it is “very necessary to have space for our families to discuss and process.” It then provides two different Zoom links; one for parents “of color,” the other for white parents.
05-01-2021
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A group of white farmers from Midwestern states are suing President Joe Biden’s administration over a financial assistance program the excludes them based “solely” on the color of their skin.
The legal team representing the farmers, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, state in their complaint filed this week that the Department of Agriculture’s “use of racial discrimination as a tool to end ‘systemic racism’ is … unconstitutional,” urging the court to enjoin the practice. As the number of voices facing big-tech censorship continues to grow, please sign up for Faithwire’s daily newsletter and download the CBN News app, developed by our parent company, to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.
White farmers seek COVID-19 loan forgiveness, sue government
By Todd Richmond
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A group of Midwestern farmers sued the federal government Thursday alleging they can t participate in a COVID-19 loan forgiveness program because they re white.
The group of plaintiffs includes farmers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and Ohio. According to the lawsuit, the Biden administration s COVID-19 stimulus plan provides $4 billion to forgive loans for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers who are Black, American Indian, Hispanic, Alaskan native, Asian American or Pacific Islander.
White farmers aren t eligible, amounting to a violation of the plaintiffs constitutional rights, the lawsuit contends.