Our Woke WI Supreme Court

is no country for old white men

with property!

Oral arguments at the WI Supreme Court this week over abortion played like a graduate seminar in critical race theory, not precedent, law, or constitution. You can thank Justice Rebecca Dallet, one of four progressive justices on the seven-member court. At stake is a Wisconsin statute enacted one year after statehood, ostensibly (at least) banning abortion. From the bench during oral arguments professor Dallet asks;

So in 1849 were talking about a time when only people who had rights were white men [she fairly spits those words] who owned property, is that right?

District Attorney Urmanski says he’ll take her word. Dallet continues:

You can take my word for it. What about everything that has happened since 1849, about some policy choice made by white men who were property owners?

It’s Justice Rebecca Bradley’s turn. She asks, “Are you aware of any principle of law that instructs judge or justices to disregard an enactment of the legislature based on the race and gender of the enactors?”

Urmanski answers no, “and I’m not aware of any such enactment that says you should disregard a statute based on how old it is.”

Liberal Justice Rebecca Dallet attacks Wisconsin's 1849 #abortionban because it was written by "white men who owned property."
Justice Rebecca Bradley calls her out.#WIright pic.twitter.com/YqZBWQLm3z

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Who’s the vice president? Jerry Lewis? — Doc Brown

We interrupt this program to express astonishment that the President-elect intends to put that immoral mountebank Matt Gaetz at the head of the Department of Justice. We were surprised that a Fox News host was named head of the Pentagon. We can live with Kristi Noem as border czar, Marco Rubio at State is brilliant. But Matt Gaetz is a big middle finger. We’ll see if the Senate, now led by John Thune of SD — who was not Trump’s choice — asserts its proper role or plays Russian Duma.

→ Matt Gaetz cannot be allowed to become Attorney General. — National Review

 The legislature makes law

Of Justice Dallet’s ignorance of the law, Attorney Rick Esenberg of the WI Institute on Law & Liberty has this to say:

I know people spitball at oral argument but the suggestion that a law passed over 170 years ago and remained on the books might be invalid because of social assumptions at the time it was passed or assumptions about the role of race or gender does not follow the law. There are ways to repeal or change statutes. Judges deciding that there should be a different “policy choice” because of “everything that has happened” is not one of them.

Someone break the news to Justice Rebecca Dallet about the white men with property who founded this country, fought for its freedom, and wrote the federal Constitution a good 60 years before 1849.

Blaska’s Bottom Line: Ike Newton said that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Except in politics, where there is an opposite and totally over the top, scorched-earth, stupid and futile reaction. That explains Matt Gaetz — it’s a joke, right? At least Bobby Kennedy had nepotism going for him.

To some degree, when justices like Rebecca Dallet legislate from the bench and attorneys general selectively prosecute their political opponents, they’re just asking for a Matt Gaetz cream pie right in the kisser.

Do YOU own property?