<p class="speakable-p-1 p-text">On Wednesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Democratic Governor Tony Evers&#8217; lockdown order, &#8220;marking the first time a statewide order of its kind has been knocked down by a court of last resort,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/13/wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-tony-evers-coronavirus-orders/5179205002/">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down Gov. Tony Evers&#8217; order to stay home in a 4-3 decision,&#8221; reporter Molly Beck broke Wednesday evening.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down Gov. Tony Evers&#39; order to stay home in a 4-3 decision.</p>
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<p class="speakable-p-2 p-text">&#8220;The state&#8217;s highest court sided with Republican lawmakers Wednesday in a decision that curbed the Evers administration&#8217;s power to act unilaterally during public health emergencies,&#8221; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report outlined. &#8220;The <a href="https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=260868" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">4-3 decision</a> was written by four of the court’s conservatives — Chief Justice Patience Roggensack and Justices Rebecca Bradley, Daniel Kelly and Annette Ziegler. The court’s fifth conservative, Brian Hagedorn, wrote a dissent joined by the court’s two liberals, Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Dallet.&#8221;</p>
<p class="p-text">&#8220;Without legislative review, &#8216;an unelected official could create law applicable to all people during the course of COVID-19 and subject people to imprisonment when they disobeyed her order,'&#8221; wrote the majority, according to the outlet.</p>
<p class="p-text">The ruling means Evers&#8217; lockdown order is effectively moot. Now, legislation will have to actually be passed before Wisconsin residents can have their freedoms curtailed statewide in the name of &#8220;slowing the spread&#8221; of the virus.</p>
<p class="p-text">And, still, local officials can implement policies as they see fit within the state: &#8220;With no COVID-19 policies in place, bars, restaurants, and concert halls are allowed to reopen — unless local officials implement their own restrictions,&#8221; the report noted.</p>
<p class="p-text">Republican State Sen. Dan Feyen said in a statement that state officials will develop a reopening plan, while Wisconsin residents will engage in &#8220;good old-fashioned common sense and personal responsibility.&#8221;</p>
<p class="p-text">&#8220;This decision will undoubtedly go down as one of the most blatant examples of judicial activism in this court&#8217;s history. And it will be Wisconsinites who pay the price,&#8221; said a dissent from Dallet, a liberal justice on court.</p>
<p>Legal cases are expected to continue to emerge as the spread of COVID-19 has been considerably slowed and lockdown orders in many areas are yet to loosen in any substantive way.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, for example, a judge denied an order from Michigan’s left-wing Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office ordering 77-year-old barber Karl Manke to close his shop, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-ag-orders-elderly-barber-closed-over-lockdown-order-judge-nope">The Daily Wire</a>.</p>
<p>David A. Kallman, the barber’s attorney, confirmed to <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/05/judge-denies-attorney-generals-demand-to-shut-down-owosso-barber-shop.html">Michigan Live</a> that Shiawassee County Circuit Court Judge Matthew Stewart turned down a complaint by the office of the Attorney General to obtain a temporary restraining order against the business.</p>
<p>Manke has been issued two citations and could face up to 90 days behind bars and/or a $500 fine for reopening last week. “The next step now would depend on if the (Attorney General) appeals or not,” Kallman said, <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/05/judge-denies-attorney-generals-demand-to-shut-down-owosso-barber-shop.html">Michigan Live</a> reported. “I don’t know if they’re going to, but for our point of view, the next step is two criminal charges pending against him in district court for misdemeanors.”</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-ag-orders-elderly-barber-closed-over-lockdown-order-judge-nope">Michigan AG Orders Elderly Barber Closed Over Lockdown Order; Judge: Nope.</a></strong></p>
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