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The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Gov. Tony Evers‘ coronavirus stay-at-home order Wednesday, ruling that his administration overstepped its authority when it extended it for another month without consulting legislators.

The 4-3 ruling essentially reopens the state, lifting caps on the size of gatherings, allowing people to travel as they please and allowing shuttered businesses to reopen, including bars and restaurants. The Tavern League of Wisconsin swiftly posted the news on its website, telling members, “You can OPEN IMMEDIATELY!”

The decision let stand language that had closed schools, however, and local governments can still impose their own health restrictions. In Dane County, home to the capital of Madison, officials quickly imposed a mandate incorporating most of the statewide order. City health officials in Milwaukee said a stay-at-home order they enacted in late March remains in effect. . . .

“Today, Republican legislators convinced four members of the state Supreme Court to throw the state into chaos,” Evers said. “They have provided no plan. There’s no question among anybody that people are going to get sick. Republicans own that chaos.” . . .

Chief Justice Patience Roggensack wrote for the majority that health secretary Andrea Palm’s order amounted to an emergency rule that she doesn’t have the power to create on her own.

“Rule-making exists precisely to ensure that kind of controlling, subjective judgement asserted by one unelected official, Palm, is not imposed in Wisconsin,” Roggensack, part of the court’s 5-2 conservative majority, wrote.

Rebecca Dallet, one of the court’s liberal justices, dissented, saying the decision will “undoubtedly go down as one of the most blatant examples of judicial activism in this court’s history. And it will be Wisconsinites who pay the price.” . . .

State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, both Republicans, said they’re confident businesses can safely reopen by following guidelines calling for letting workers stay home if they’re sick, making workers wash their hands and implementing telework and social distancing and postponing travel and events.

“This (court decision) does not promote people to act in a way that they believe endangers their health,” they said.

Evers first issued a stay-at-home order in March that closed schools and nonessential businesses. The order was supposed to lift April 24, but Palm, an Evers appointee, extended it to May 26.

Republicans asked the Supreme Court to block the extension, arguing that Palm exceeded her authority because the extension amounted to an administrative rule that required legislative approval. Evers countered that state law clearly gives the executive branch broad authority to quickly enact emergency measures to control communicable diseases.

Nearly seven of 10 Wisconsin residents back Evers‘ “safer at home” order, based on a Marquette University Law School poll released Tuesday, though that support was down from 86% in March.

The Republican legislators had asked the court to let the rule remain in place for six days to give them time to work with Evers‘ administration on an alternative plan. The court refused to grant the stay, saying the two sides have had weeks to come up with something. . . .

Evers said there’s no avenue to appeal the decision. His administration plans to put together an emergency rule addressing the virus, he said, but the process is so complex that it could be at least two weeks before state health officials can start drafting it. And the final product could be blocked by legislators.

“In the meantime, we’re going to have 72 counties doing their own thing,” Evers said. “I can’t believe there’s a state in the nation with this type of chaos.”

Vos and Fitzgerald said in their statement that they want to work with the administration on rules that would provide clear guidance in case COVID-19 “reoccurs in a more aggressive way.”

The GOP move against Evers mirrors actions taken by Republican-controlled legislatures in other states, most notably against the Democratic governors in nearby “blue wall” states Michigan and Pennsylvania. All three are critical presidential battlegrounds in November. . . .

During Walker’s final weeks in office, Republicans adopted a set of laws that prohibited Evers from ordering the attorney general to withdraw from lawsuits, a move designed to prevent the governor from pulling Wisconsin out of a multistate lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act. The state Supreme Court has upheld those laws.

The high court also backed Republicans over Evers in the GOP’s insistence on holding in-person voting for April’s presidential primary despite the health risks of the coronavirus.

(Excerpt from The Washington Times. Article by Todd Richmond. Photo Credit: Getty Images.)

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Dorothy Cameron
November 15, 2020

Father God,
We know that the enemy loves to stir up confusion. It is up to Your church to join You and to operate in unity. Only You, Lord, can bring order from chaos.
Wisconsin and other states are experiencing chaos on many levels.. There is a spirit of fear that has manifested it’s ugly face over these states.
Help us to see the spiritual battle going on. First, bring unity to Your church, that we would be in agreement, surrendering to Your lordship. We pray that we would join You as You dispel the spirit of fear. We speak ‘peace be still’, just as You spoke to the storm raging on the sea. Jesus, You are the Prince of Peace. It is Your peace, not a false peace, that we seek for the people of Wisconsin and for this nation. For Your honor and glory. Amen

Psalm 24:8
Who is the King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
The Lord mighty in battle.

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Jimmy B Shackle
November 15, 2020

Thank God for their court! Freedom is far more important than weather or not you get sick. By isolating ourselves from one another we are preventing the natural herd immunity to develop, thereby actually making us all even more susceptible to all manner of disease. Limiting people’s freedom is not the answer!

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