Per Professor Althouse,
So Kloppenburg failed to win a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in an election that focused on the budget-repair bill, but she could try, by initiating a futile lawsuit about the election, to affect the way the Wisconsin Supreme Court decides the budget case and to affect it in a way that is contrary to what the voters voted for. And, if she does that, expect to hear her say lofty-sounding things about protecting the interests of the voters.Regards — Cliff
IMHO, if Kloppenburg files what will arguably be a frivolous suit to overturn the entire election, she is inviting a SCOTUS review (which is most likely the preferred outcome she desires). Such a suit will however introduce into WI politics and society an extremely polarized conflict among the electorate. The consequences of her action will almost certainly result in some violence and certainly radical revolt on both sides of the question.
ReplyDeleteNot only will her likely suit cause incredible unrest in WI, but it will surely spread rapidly to other states in which the issue of public unions is a simmering cauldron already.
Though it won't happen, I would think that public service unions, as well as traditional labor unions would try to disengage and let the matter die down thus enabling them to attempt further end runs, quietly. To allow this to boil over into the mainstream of American society is to invite a forced destruction of union power altogether.
Moreover, it will quickly become a very, very hot button issue in Presidential and Congressional politics, perhaps the most volatile and certainly the most vociferous segment of the American political scene.
This will be interesting....and extremely unpleasant....