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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 21:08:12 JST feld
   Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice accuses liberal majority of staging a 'coup' | AP News
   
   https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-liberals-conservative-chief-justice-81d040f7a59c210c8ba2a4c8007834b5
   
   
   Hahaha 🔥🔥🔥
   
   They're finally getting a taste of their own medicine in Wisconsin
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 22:37:30 JST feld

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     History: the GOP pushed through a ballot measure* to change Wisconsin's constitution in 2015 during a spring election with a terrible turnout of ~24% which changed the way the Chief Justice is selected from "most senior Justice // voted in the most times by Wisconsin citizens" to "let the other Justices on the court choose" because they gained a conservative majority on the court.
     
     The GOP claimed "it will be more democratic because the court will choose their own Chief and they'll get along better" which was absolute horse shit. Imagine if we did this with the Federal Supreme Court. 💩
     
     Now they're pissed the court majority is liberal and is using their majority powers to the max.
     
     The wording of this ballot measure was, like usual, extremely confusing. And there was nothing interesting on the ballot to bring people to the polls. Pure evil.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 22:38:29 JST feld

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     It's also insanity that you can pass a Constitutional amendment with such low voter turnout.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 22:43:03 JST feld

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     Abrahmson tried to get the Federal courts to intervene, but it was smacked down with this gem:
     
     "Constitutional provisions are drawn with broad strokes ... There is no requirement that a state, in restructuring its government or the powers and duties of its officials by means of a constitutional amendment, do so with super-clarity to protect the interests of the officials or voters whose interests might be impaired."
     
     Read that over a few times and think about it. Even at the Federal level they admit that YOUR government has a right to trick you into amassing the powers they crave.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 22:46:53 JST feld

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     > Prosser, a former Republican legislative leader who is now viewed as the leader of the conservative wing of the Supreme Court, famously called Abrahamson a “total bitch” and threatened to “destroy” her. At the same time, most court watchers, both Democrats and Republicans, agree that Justice Abrahamson is without question the smartest member of the Supreme Court and a fair chief justice.
     
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 22:59:46 JST feld

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     This is the current list of how the Chiefs are selected by states
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 23:56:13 JST feld

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     Not only that, but if you do rotation (especially if e.g., you expand the courts so there are more justices) and assign them randomly to cases / Chief is unpredictable, you just blocked people from being able to present cases only when they know the Justices they know will agree with them from presiding over the case.
     
     little things like this can end the weaponization of the courts
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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 23:56:14 JST chiasm

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     @feld It looks a lot like ways of picking a department chair--search committee, appointment, faculty vote, or rotation (pretty sure popular election doesn't come in, but some department might use it!). In the departments I've been in or connected to, rotation by far works the best. It sucks for the person whose turn it is, but it's a limited term appointment, and they are surrounded by other people who have been or will be chair. There is more of a team spirit!