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We think we should stop calling it a law, because it doesn't 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 what's going on. the administration decides to ignore the court ruling, and try to make this act a law by the back way of doing it. i think they should be seriousl...

Open records request demanding to read professor cronon's 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 seen this thing coming. after the big democratic wins in elections in 2006 and 2008, the pendulum sw...

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 judge's ruling. they said you know, we think the bill is law, and they started to implement it. today, the judge ruled again, saying her earlier ruling must have been ...

Effect. am i right the judge's 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, that's right. but there's 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 implementation of the law and enjoined the secretary of state from publishing. so there's two parts, and ...

Enjoined the secretary of state from publishing. so there's 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 they're going to do next? >> i don't know. they've already behad it racay, ltl irresponsible to iore the orders of the court. they seem, pardon my language, hellbent to get this passed, and from my point of...