Wisconsin Supreme Court overrides governor's stay-at-home order
By Rebecca Klar - 05/13/20 07:07 PM EDT
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Gov. Tony Evers’s (D) stay-at-home order put in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The court’s decision to overrule the order forces Evers to work with the Republican-controlled state Legislature on an alternate plan.
The 4-3 decision was written by for of the court’s conservatives, Chief Justice Patience Roggensack and Justices Rebecca Bradley, Daniel Kelly and Annette Ziegler. A fifth conservative, Brian Hagedorn, joining the court’s two liberals, Ann Walh Gradley and Rebecca Dallet, in dissenting, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Republican lawmakers had brought the suit against Evers over the stay-at-home order.
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