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Surely the Wisconsin legislature, if it desired to direct these efforts, could muster a plurality of the state legislature to override or overrule the Governor,

Surely the Wisconsin legislature, if it desired to direct these efforts, could muster a plurality of the state legislature to override or overrule the Governor, could they not? If it's truly a case of gubernatorial overreach, it's not like they don't have a wide variety of options at their disposal. I'm hardly a legal scholar, but I have yet to hear of a state that hasn't been able to override a governor's decision making process if they really felt the need. I'd buy Wisconsin Supreme Court's justification if we weren't talking about a fucking pandemic, but here we are.

vorpalhex 6y ago
The issue is with the invocation of emergency powers which do not usually have an override process thus the need for the judiciary to weigh in.
- vkou 6y ago
  Typically, the override processes require 2/3rds of the legislature. If the republican part of the legislature could convince the democratic part of the legislature to vote with them, they could probably pull this off. Since they can't, they are asking partisan judges to force the issue, instead.