Supreme Court

Wisconsin Supreme Court justices called Gov. Tony Evers’ budget veto extending school funding increases for 400 years “extreme” during oral arguments in a lawsuit claiming he violated the Wisconsin Constitution.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case that could have sweeping effects on state environmental regulators’ authority to force businesses to clean up PFAS pollution under the state’s spills law. 

One case focuses on the legality of a mobile-voting van, and the second looks at whether court records determining a voter is incompetent should be public record.

How the court rules in the case could set precedent for how Wisconsin employers handle investigations of employees moving forward. 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has given the state’s Green Party and the Wisconsin Elections Commission until 5 p.m. Friday to respond to a petition brought by the state’s Democratic Party.

With claims that the U.S. Supreme Court is facing a “crisis of ethics” due to conflicts of interest and recent rulings, President Joe Biden is calling for term limits and a binding code of ethics for justices. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has faced similar claims, but the rules for justices are different here.

Friday’s near-unanimous decision hands a major victory to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

Progressives hope to overturn a near-total ban on ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has accepted two high-profile abortion lawsuits, one asserting that the state Constitution protects a woman’s right to abortion and another challenging a pre-Civil War law that was for years thought to ban the procedure.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling limits the authority of federal agencies to issue regulations, drawing praise from Wisconsin’s largest business group and fears among state environmental advocates.