Wisconsin's Very Special Independence Day
As the gentle reader already knows, Thursday was the Fourth of July, Independence Day. It's the day the country sets aside to celebrate the birth of our country with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
However, in Wisconsin, the party started a little earlier.
On Wednesday, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Frost ordered that Wisconsin workers are once again free and independent, when he found that Act 10, Scott Walker's attack on public sector workers and their unions, was unconstitutional, which is something that we had been saying all along:
The lawsuit argues the 2011 law violates equal protection guarantees in the Wisconsin Constitution by dividing public employees into two classes: "general" and "public safety" employees. Public safety employees are exempt from the collective bargaining limitations imposed on "general" public employees.