Walker, Republican Voters, believe in Tyranny of the Majority, and not the Constitution.

The state's constitutional teabillies, the whole Walker administration, are proving how bad "strict constructionists" are at interpreting out founding document. Justice Thomas and Scalia are members of that club too. Losing confidence yet? You should be. It's all part of the conservative activist takeover of our courts.

The best example yet is this recent reaction by Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, with Neil Cavuto, the other day on Fox News:

Kleefisch: "You're talking about the court taking on a whole extra branch of government, as part of its resume."

Amazing isn't it?


This was the story at Bradblog, who couldn't have said it any better:

WI s Walker FellowRepublicans Unclear on How Judiciary, Constitution Works

There was another interesting response to the ruling fromWalker and his fellow partisans following the ruling on Friday, which seems tosuggest they haven't a clue about how the court system works, how the U.S.Constitution is supposed to work, or even how representative democracy works.Either that, or they simply don't care and feel it's just more important tocontinue scamming their gullible constituencies then it is to be honest aboutwhat actually happened on Friday.

Making matters worse though, not only are they wrong aboutmatters of how democracy and the court system works, they are also wrong ontheir facts as well, even if they hope nobody will notice...

"The people of Wisconsin clearly spoke on June5th," Walker said at the top of his response to the ruling onFriday. "Now, they are ready to move on. Sadly, a liberal activist judgein Dane County wants to go backward and take away the lawmakingresponsibilities of the Legislature and the governor."

In a similar vein, Republican state Rep. Robin Vos

"A judge living in the fantasy world of Dane County hasdecided they are going to substitute their singular opinion as opposed to thecollective will of Wisconsin, through the Legislature and the recall process,"Vos is quotedin Milwaukee's Journal-Sentinelas saying on Friday. "We havelitigated, reviewed and elected people because of Act 10 [the Republican lawwhich strips most collectively bargaining rights]. In each case, they say thelaw works. And it is," he said.

Of course, neither how "the people of Wisconsin...spokeon June 5th", as Walker argued, nor anything about the "recallprocess" or "collective will of Wisconsin" as the hypocriticalVos suggested, or even whether or not "the law works," have anythingto do with whether it is legal under the state and U.S. Constitution.

Nonetheless, as expected, their partisan surrogates in themedia have parroted the same disingenuous line.

"The list of people who support Wisconsin governorScott Walker's law ... is fairly long," writes partisan ChristianSchneider at the National Review Online, as well as at the Journal-Sentinel today. "Yet," Schneider adds deceptively, "the lawwas gutted on Friday by Dane County circuit court judge Juan Colas, who took itupon himself to save the citizens of Wisconsin from a law that theyoverwhelmingly support."

The Constitutionality of laws is not determined at theballot box. In fact, the U.S. Constitution, at least, is specifically designed inorder to help protect the minority against the tyranny of the majority. What isit that these Republicans don't understand about that?

For some reason, the partisan Republican supporters of theanti-union law who believe that Walker's supposed win on June 5th means the lawis Constitutional, have conveniently forgotten that they also ended up losingcontrol of the entire State Senate because of it.

But let's not let facts --- and the way government and therule of law and the court system actually work --- get in the way of Republicanactivist partisans.