In a 7-0 decision, the court sided with Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul that requiring the state attorney general to get permission from a Republican-controlled legislative committee to settle certain civil lawsuits was unconstitutional. They also ruled the law violated the separation of powers clause.
The state Supreme Court said the state legislature can not “assume for itself the power to execute a law it wrote.”
The case stems from when the Republican-controlled Wisconsin state legislature convened a session in December 2018 after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Kaul defeated Republican incumbents, flipping the executive branch of the state.
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The law, which weakened the attorney general’s authority, was signed by then-Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) before he left office. It required the state’s GOP-controlled legislative budget
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