‘Raw Exercise of Overreaching Power’: Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Liberal Majority Clashes With Chief Justice on Day 1

The Wisconsin Supreme Court (shown here on Dec. 4, 2021) will hear a challenge to mask mandates issued by the health officer for Madison and Dane County. Joseph Hanneman/The Epoch Times

On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court became a liberal-majority court for the first time in 15 years. On Wednesday, the four liberal justices voted to fire Director of State Courts Randy Koschnick. The termination was announced in a short letter (pdf) signed by Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, informing him his role would end that same day, without specifying a reason.

Chief Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler followed the announcement with a long statement denouncing her colleagues’ “unprecedented dangerous conduct” as a “raw exercise of overreaching power.”