The Wisconsin Decision

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled this afternoon that the law which ended pat of the collective bargaining rights of state employees was properly passed in the legislature. Right after the law passed two months ago, a local judge in Dane County began issuing ordered to prevent the implementation of the law and then found it improper on the grounds that the subject of a session of the legislature had not been posted for long enough before the vote on the bill was taken. The local judge, a Democrat, stepped in to try to take over the legislative power of the state house and senate according to the decision of the Supreme Court overturning her ruling.

There will surely be other challenges in the future to this law. It is good to see, however, that the Wisconsin Supreme Court was able to stop the effort to use legal tricks to try to prevent its implementation. As the Democrats used to like to say: elections have consequences. This was clearly the result of the big GOP victory in Wisconsin in 2010. The people spoke and even the Democrats and the state employee labor unions will have to listen.