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Wisconsin GOP’s power grab is a danger to democracy

Credit: Captiol100th.Wisconsin.gov

In Wisconsin, Democratic candidates won the 2018 elections for governor and attorney general.

But the Republican-controlled legislature quickly introduced and passed lame-duck legislation that takes power away from these incoming officeholders and hands it to the state legislature, which will remain in GOP control.

Outgoing Republican Governor Scott Walker is expected to sign these bills into law, but as of this writing has not yet done so.

View the complete article by Christopher Beem, Managing Director of the McCortney Institute of Democracy, Pennsylvania State University here.

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