WI Supreme Court gives win to Tony Evers over Gov. Scott Walker in case challenging authority

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Supreme Court gives win to Tony Evers over Gov. Scott Walker in case challenging authority


https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/27/supreme-court-allows-tony-evers-hire-attorney-over-scott-walkers-objection-case-challenging-authorit/737701002/



Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 9:37 a.m. CT June 27, 2018 | Updated 2:28 p.m. CT June 27, 2018
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MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court leveled an election-year blow against Gov. Scott Walker in a case involving Walker and his top Democratic candidate challenger.

In a 4-3 decision, the court ruled Wednesday state schools Superintendent Tony Evers may choose his own attorney to defend him in a lawsuit filed by a conservative law firm challenging Evers' authority to write his own education policies.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty argues in the suit Evers should be subject to a new law that requires agency heads to seek permission from Walker before writing new rules and regulations. Evers says the new law does not apply to his office because he is a constitutional officer, unlike most agency leaders, and because a previous Supreme Court ruling on a similar question upheld his independent authority.

Walker had tried to block Evers from picking his own lawyer, and Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel had assigned Department of Justice lawyers who disagreed with Evers' stance in the case. But the conservative-controlled court said Evers could not be required to be represented by DOJ and that Walker is not a party to the case.

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