Remember when impassioned protesters stormed a Capitol building and disrupted the democratic process?
No, not the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. I’m talking about the pro-union one that stormed the Wisconsin state Capitol on Feb. 21, 2011. More than a decade ago, hundreds of protesters charged into and occupied the state Capitol in Madison, fighting against the enactment of Act 10, Wisconsin’s sweeping and transformative labor reforms.
Nearly 14 years later, government unions and their activist network finally won a legal battle against Act 10. On Monday, a county judge ruled Act 10 unconstitutional, effectively reinstituting the law as it existed before 2011. To do so, the judge had to stiff-arm at least three prior court rulings on the same law involving the same legal principles from the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of…
