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turbinetree

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Tue May 5, 2020, 06:52 PM May 2020

And now word from a judge...............and yes, she is judge...............

Watch Wisconsin judge compare stay-home orders to WWII internment

By Oliver Willis -May 5, 2020 1:49 PM

Republican lawmakers have been challenging stay-at-home orders despite the significant risk to public health posed by COVID-19.

On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments via teleconference on a challenge from the state's Republican lawmakers to the "safer at home" order issued by the administration of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to protect citizens during the COVID-19 outbreak and slow the spread of the disease.

During the hearing, conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley invoked the landmark United States Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, which allowed the government to hold Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. Bradley suggested that requiring Wisconsin residents to stay home, and to keep non-essential businesses closed, was similar to that decision.

Bradly was first appointed to the circuit court in Milwaukee by then-Gov. Scott Walker in 2012 and won election to the state Supreme Court in 2016 even after columns surfaced in which she said she had no sympathy for AIDS patients — she referred to them as "queers" and "degenerate drug addicts" — and called people who voted for Bill Clinton "either totally stupid or entirely evil."

https://americanindependent.com/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-coronavirus-internment-world-war-ii-rebecca-bradley-covid-19/

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And now word from a judge...............and yes, she is judge............... (Original Post) turbinetree May 2020 OP
In related news, Judge Bradly, making people go to work during Coronavirus is like muntrv May 2020 #1
Not exactly, but good point on their hyperbole. crickets May 2020 #2
I heard about this teleconference on XM radio today GusBob May 2020 #3
Manipulation of justice. Karadeniz May 2020 #4

muntrv

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1. In related news, Judge Bradly, making people go to work during Coronavirus is like
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:57 PM
May 2020

sending people to concentration camps.

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