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The conservative chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday told the new liberal majority in a scathing email that they had staged a “coup” and conducted an “illegal experiment” when they voted to weaken her powers and fire the director of state courts.

Chief Justice Annette Ziegler, in two emails obtained by The Associated Press, said that firing and hiring a new state court director was illegal and ordered interim state court director Audrey Skwierawski to stop signing orders without her knowledge or approval.

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[–] Brokkr 9 points 1 year ago

I'm not the person as you replied to, but I hope to introduce some additional information which might answer your question in case it was genuine.

The OP of this comment tree advocated for originalism ("based on their original intent") which up until about 20 years ago was generally considered incompatible with the responsibilities of a Judge. Typically, precedent is supposed to matter more than the laws original intent. Conservatives have been appointing originalists to the bench for a while now and it is leading to decisions like overturning Roe V. Wade. I can't do a good job explaining it in more detail, but you can search for "stare decisis vs originalism" to find more information. The results may be political so use your own intellectual filter.

It's possible that the OP didn't know that this is an originalists argument, but that's what the words currently state.