Declaring that the state’s top health official wrongly bypassed legislative oversight, the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the Evers’ administration’s extended lockdown of the state.
The 4-3 decision by the conservative-led court declares Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary-designee Andrea Palm’s Emergency Order 28 “unlawful, invalid, and unenforceable.”
Palm’s extended order, issued before Evers’ first stay-at-home edict was set to expire on April 24, criminalized what are generally constitutionally protected activities — free travel, operating a business, attending church, among other such lockdown “crimes.” That’s a point outgoing Justice Daniel Kelly drove home during last week’s oral arguments before the court.
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11.26.2024