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We think we should stop calling it a law, because it doesnt seem legal. joining us, wisconsin secretary of state, doug la follette. >> good to be here, rachel, to talk to you and the people across america. >> let me ask you if i got anything wrong in my introduction. this has been a fast moving and at times crazy process. did i screw anything up? >> you pretty much got it right. it is pretty complicated. but the summary you made is whats going on. the administration decides to ignore the court r...

Open records request demanding to read professor cronons e-mails, taking a law designed to make law transparent to the public and using it to force into the public e-mails written by a university professor whose academic writings put him on the wrong side of the republican party on an issue they feel sensitive about. you speak out, the government will use all the leverage they can muster over you to pry open your life. small, leave me alone government or the other kind? we probably should have s...

Even though they called it the budget repair bill. they relabeled the thing nonfiscal, said it did not therefore require a quorum to pass it. and though democrats said what they were doing was illegal, republicans noted on their own to pass it. the judge issued an injunction blocking that bill from officially becoming law until the qutionf her it was paed legally could be soed out. ott walker administrion effectively ignored the judges ruling. they said you know, we think the bill is law, and th...

Effect. am i right the judges ruling blocked you from publishing the law, but the walker administration went around your office and just had another part of state government publish it instead and called that making it law? >> well, thats right. but theres more to it. the normal procedure is i receive the act, schedule publication, and i did that under the law. then the judge issued a temporary restraining order. but the restraining order said two things. it said she blocked any further implemen...

Enjoined the secretary of state from publishing. so theres two parts, and the walker administration totally ignored the first part. she said no further implementation. and the secretary of state should not publish it. >> now that the judge has so emphatically reiterated what seems to have been the terms of her earlier injunction, how do you expect the walker administration will react, what theyre going to do next? >> i dont know. theyve already behad it racay, ltl irresponsible to iore the order...

Implement it. today, the judge ruled again, saying her earlier ruling must have been quote, either misunderstood or ignored. this time the judge said with some insistence that the union-stripping law is, in fact, not in effect in wisconsin, it is enjoined. remarkably after this second ruling, the scott walker administration still declared theyre going ahead with implementing the new union-stripping law, which maybe makes we think we should stop calling it a law, because it doesnt seem legal. joi...

To raise 100 grand to run it, and next time i checked, they got their $100,000. their thermometer was up to the top. you need a bigger thermometer. in wisconsin, public opinion is very, very strongly against that union-stripping bill. the fight is not just electoral, it is legal. republicans passed that bill by taking the unusual step by stripping it out of the budget, even though they called it the budget repair bill. they relabeled the thing nonfiscal, said it did not therefore require a quoru...

Legs tours in all these states all over the country are stretching the power of government to try to end that right of yours. a history professor at the university of wisconsin published a long study guide online earlier this month, looking at what might explain this policy push not just in wisconsin but in all these other states all at once. the professors name is william cronon. he is not only not a liberal activist, he is no shlub. president elect of the american historical association, mccar...

A history professor at the university of wisconsin published a long study guide online earlier this month, looking at what might explain this policy push not just in wisconsin but in all these other states all at once. the professors name is william cronon. he is not only not a liberal activist, he is no shlub. president elect of the american historical association, mccarthy genius award winner. one of the most distinguished professors ia. t tehete tscami pie online aut conrvive groups using mod...

Theyre going to do next? >> i dont know. theyve already behaved quieter at cli, a little irresponsible to ignore the orders of the court. they seem, pardon my language, hell bent to get this passed, and from my point of view as secretary of state, theres sort of two parts of this. my responsibility to publish the law or not based on court orders and following the rules. the other part of my thinking as a many, many year statewide elected official is the substance of that law. it is wide sweeping...