Could what happened in the Tennessee State Assembly be repeated in Wisconsin?

MILWAUKEE — Nationwide consideration is on Tennessee the place the GOP-led State Home expelled two Democrats for protesting in opposition to gun violence on the home ground.

Might one thing like this occur right here in Wisconsin? Republicans gained a supermajority within the state Senate after Dan Knodl gained the District 8 seat in Tuesday’s election.

We reached out to Senator-Elect Knodl unsuccessfully to get his tackle studies that whereas operating for workplace, he stated he can be open to eradicating judicial officers from workplace, together with Supreme Court docket-elect Janet Protasiewicz.

We additionally caught up with Gov. Tony Evers whereas he was visiting Waukesha. We requested him in regards to the probability that it may occur right here. He replied, “Properly I imagine not and I do know he is walked that again some, however on the finish of the day, we have to work collectively.”

One thing Majority Chief of the Wisconsin State Senate, Devin Lemahieu, has echoed. A consultant in his Madison workplace instructed us by cellphone Friday, the senator has little interest in eradicating anybody from workplace with out substantial trigger.
In keeping with state legislation noticed by UW-Milwaukee Political Professor Mordecai Lee, it will take a two-thirds majority to expel an Meeting or Senate member for contempt and disorderly conduct.

Only two lawmakers have ever been disciplined by the state legislature, one senator for murder and one other for refusing to withdraw “disloyal” ground statements.

Taking a look at what occurred in Tennessee, three representatives had been protesting for stricter gun legal guidelines on the home ground, and two of these Democrats had been expelled. Gov. Evers believes there’s extra to it than simply that. “And why? What was the distinction? And clearly, if you happen to take a look at the three of them, it is the colour of their pores and skin.”

Evers talks about Tenn. statehouse expulsion

Lawyer James Corridor, who served because the President of the NAACP Milwaukee Chapter from 2010-2014, agrees. “I believe altogether the motion was undemocratic and racial and its harmful, in reality,” stated Corridor.

Corridor believes it will be a grave mistake for a supermajority to make use of their energy this manner in Wisconsin. “Properly that actually wouldn’t be politically possible, I’d reply that manner. I believe what occurred in Tennessee will finally come again to chew them in the long term,” he stated.

One decide has confronted doable impeachment, in keeping with our state’s courtroom system biography: Levi Hubbel in 1853. The Wisconsin Historic Society states the State Meeting impeached him for judicial misconduct. The State Senate acquitted him.

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