% HERE AND NOW SENIOR POLITICAL
% REPORTER, ZAC SCHULTZ, HAS THIS
% STORY.
% >> IN MAY OF 2020, THE WORLD WAS
% IN LOCK-DOWN.
% THE COVID PANDEMIC WAS ONLY
% MONTHS UNDERWAY WITH THE VACCINE
% STILL EIGHT MONTHS AWAY.
% GOVERNOR TONY EVERS' EMERGENCY
% AUTHORITY ELAPSED AFTER 60 DAYS,
% AND WHEN ANDRE PALM, HIS
% SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR THE
% DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, TRIED TO
% REISSUE EMERGENCY SAFER-AT-HOME
% ORDERS, THE REPUBLICANS IN THE
% LEGISLATURE FILED A LAWSUIT
% SAYING THE ORDERS WERE A RULE
% AND SHOULD GO THROUGH THE
% RULE-MAKING PROCESS, WHICH WOULD
% ALLOW REPUBLICANS TO 8-GAME%
WINKILL THEORDERS.
% >> AS YOU KNOW, THE OPINION OF
% THE COURT WAS THAT THE
% SAFER-AT-HOME ORDER DID NOT
% FOLLOW THE RULES FOR
% PROMULGATING A NEW RULE AND, AS
% A RESULT, IT WAS AN UNLAWFUL
% ORDER.%>> DANIEL KELLY WAS ON
THE COURT
% AT THE TIME.
% HE HAD LOST HIS BID FOR
% RE-ELECTION A MONTH EARLIER BUT
% HIS TERM WENT THROUGH AUGUST AND
% HE CAST THE DECIDING VOTE IN A
% FRACTURED 4-3 DECISION.
% JUSTICE REBECCA BRADLY AND I
% WROTE SEPARATELY TO ADDRESS THE
% CONSTITUTIONALITY PROBLEM AND SO
% THE WAY WE LOOK TATT IS WE SAW
% AN EXECUTIVE BRANCH AGENCY
% MAKING THE LAW AND THAT'S
% SOMETHING THAT OUR CONSTITUTION
% ONLY GIVES TO THE LEGISLATURE.
% >> PROTASIEWICZ WAS MUCH LESS
% WILLING TO STAKE OUT A POSITION,
% EVEN THOUGH THE LIBERAL DISSENT
% SAID THE MAJORITY RULING WOULD
% LIKE RESULT IN ADDITIONAL DEATHS
% IN WISCONSIN.
% >> I DON'T KNOW, AND I'LL TELL
% YOU THIS, OBVIOUSLY I'VE GOT A
% LOT OF CONCERNS ABOUT PUBLIC
% SAFETY, BUT EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND
% EXTENDING EXECUTIVE ORDERS,
% THOSE ARE INTERESTING,
% COMPLICATED, INTRICATE CASES.
% SO, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT JUST GOING
% TO PULL A RABBIT OUT OF THE HAT
% AND SAY ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER
% BECAUSE I REALLY AM
% CONTEMPLATIVE AND I LIKE TO
% THINK ABOUT THE LAW AND THINK
% ABOUT ALL OF THE ISSUES.
% >> SEVEN MONTHS LATER, ANOTHER
% SIGNIFICANT CASE CAME TO THE
% COURT.
% TRUMP V BIDEN, IN WHICH DONALD
% TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN SOUGHT TO
% OVERTURN THE RESULTS OF THE
% PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN
% WISCONSIN BY TOSSING OUT
% THOUSANDS OF ANT ANT ABSENTEE
% BALLOTS.%WITH KELLY OFF THE C
OURT, IT WAS
% RULED 4-3 THEY WOULD NOT HEAR
% THE CASE, SEALING TRUMP'S LOSS.
% KELLY WAS VAGUE ABOUT WHETHER HE
% WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE CASE.
% >> YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE WERE
% A COUPLE OF IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
% THAT WERE EMBEDDED IN THOSE
% CASES, THINGS ABOUT BALLOT DROP
% BOXES, BALLOT HARVESTING.
% THEY WERE SUBSEQUENTLY ANSWERED
% IN FOLLOWING CASES, BUT I DON'T
% THINK THERE WAS ANY REASON THEY
% SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANSWERED IN
% THOSE CASES.
% I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WOULD HAVE
% CHANGED THE RESULT AT ALL, BUT
% HAS A QUESTIONABLE LAW, YOU
% KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THOSE QUESTIONS
% ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GET
% ANSWERED AT SOME POINT.
% >> RECENT REPORTING HAS SHOWN
% DURING THAT TIME, KELLY WAS
% ACTUALLY ADVISING THE REPUBLICAN
% PARTY OF WISCONSIN ON THEIR
% SLATE OF FAKE ELECTORS THAT
% WOULD HAVE COME FOR TRUMP ON
% JANUARY 6th IF HIS LAWSUIT WAS
% SUCCESSFUL.
% PROTASIEWICZ SAYS KELLY'S
% OBJECTIONS LEAVE LITTLE DOUBT
% ABOUT HOW HE WOULD HAVE VOTED.
% >> HE WAS RECENTLY TOURING THE
% STATE WITH, OF ALL PEOPLE, OF
% ALL PEOPLE, MICHAEL GABLEMAN, AN
% ELECTION INTEGRITY TOUR.
% WHAT WERE THEY TRYING TO DO?
% PEDDLE THE BIG LIE THAT THE 2020
% ELECTION WAS STOLEN.
% WE ALL KNOW THAT ELECTION WASN'T
% STOLEN.% >> REPORTING FROM