Killing Scott Walker’s Act 10 Was an Inside Job for Far-Left Judges
The judges responsible for the future of Wisconsin’s collective bargaining law campaigned to recall Gov. Walker in 2011
Act 10 was an important step forward for Wisconsin—and the bane of the far Left. The 2011 law, passed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, limited government unions’ ability to demand collective bargaining at taxpayer expense, which curbed special interests’ ability to influence public decision-making and brought oversight back to the legislature, where it belongs.
Naturally, woke teachers unions and other government unions have spent the past decade trying to gut Act 10, beginning with Walker’s attempted recall in 2011—and they finally succeeded this month.
Dane County Judge Jacob Frost. Image Credit: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
On July 3, Dane County Judge Jacob Frost—who was appointed by Democrat Gov. Tony Evers in 2020—declared key parts of Act 10 unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought forward last November by the SEIU, Teamsters, and AFSCME, all of which substantially back Democrats.
Experts expect that to further harm Wisconsin’s schools, which have already suffered under the woke Left’s tyrannical COVID restrictions, costing taxpayers billions of dollars and making it harder to find good teachers amidst the state’s teacher shortage. None of that matters to the special interests who got their pound of flesh.
Now it turns out that Judge Frost apparently joined the campaign to recall Walker. His name and Madison address appear at the top on a 2011 petition to recall Walker for passing Act 10, just above that of his wife, Nichole Martin:
Conservative commentator Dan O’Donnell, who discovered Frost’s signature, has pointed out that the “Wisconsin Code of Judicial Conduct requires a judge to recuse himself from a case when he has such an obvious ‘personal bias or prejudice.’”
“Seriously, though: Frost has a clear conflict of interest and must recuse himself from this case,” O’Donnell tweeted.
Rigged from the Start
It gets worse. In April 2023, Democrats—with hundreds of thousands of dollars from unions—flipped the state supreme court by electing Janet Protasiewicz, who admits she participated in anti-Act 10 protests in 2011 and signed the same Walker recall petition.
“I’d have to think about it,” Protasiewicz told reporters. “Given the fact that I marched, given the fact that I signed the recall petition, would I recuse myself? Maybe. Maybe. But I don’t know for sure.”
Better figure that one out quickly, Janet, because the Act 10 decision is almost certain to make it up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The Left has discovered that it doesn’t need democracy to win victories if it has control of the courts. All they need is a berobed “progressive” to cancel out the will of the people—democracy be damned.
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