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Survivors of Spousal Abuse Say Wisconsin Custody System Disregards Their Safety

The Crime Report

Advocates for women in Wisconsin describe the family court system as unprepared for the complexities presented by domestic violence, often giving little consideration to the risk of harm to women and children and compounding the trauma they face. There were a total of 361.

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Incarcerees Have the Right to Vote, But Where Are Their Ballots?

The Crime Report

In Wisconsin, for example, voting rights groups found that while just over half the sheriffs said they had policies in place to encourage jail-based voting, many inmates encountered multiple hurdles including the states voter ID laws. Wisconsin does not permit a jail ID as an acceptable form of identification to vote.

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Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

JonathanTurley

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. I have a legal education.”

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The majority responded to this latter point by saying that “[t]he dissent’s view is akin to saying that incurring a debt has legal consequences, but forgiving one does not. What is disputed is whether it is just or legal to convict Ward of felony crimes for acting peacefully and responsibly to prevent greater harm to the climate.”

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Grosskreutz v. Grosskreutz? Surviver from 2020 Kenosha Shooting Sues Kyle Rittenhouse

JonathanTurley

Gaige Grosskreutz who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha riots in 2020 is now suing him as well as Wisconsin police and officials. Without provocation or any legal justification, Defendant Rittenhouse shot at Grosskreutz from point-blank range, hitting him in the arm. it is back.

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Three Wisconsin county prosecutors decline to pursue felony charges against Trump fundraising committee and Republican lawmaker

JURIST

The Wisconsin Ethics Commission announced in a memo Friday that the Wisconsin county prosecutors of Chippewa, Florence and Langlade Counties have declined to pursue felony charges for conspiring to evade campaign finance laws against the fundraising committee for former President Donald Trump and Wisconsin state Rep.

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The Red Line: Democratic Officials Claim a Dangerous License for Illegality

JonathanTurley

Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba charged McIver with a felony under Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1). In Wisconsin, Judge Hannah Dugan has been charged with obstructing a federal arrest of an illegal immigrant who appeared in her courtroom. Even judges are claiming the same license. Dan Goldman (D.,