A Wisconsin circuit court judge issued an injunction yesterday preventing the state from enforcing the voter ID law passed by Scott Walker and his loyal henchmen in the state legislature while a lawsuit by the ACLU regarding the matter is pending.
A judge in Wisconsin’s Dane County granted a temporary injunction barring enforcement of the state’s controversial voter ID law on Tuesday, ruling that enforcing the law on April 3 elections would likely cause irreparable harm.
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Circuit Judge David Flanagan ruled that a suit by the NAACP’s Milwaukee branch and Voces de la Frontera against Gov. Scott Walker (R) had demonstrated that the lawsuit would probably succeed on its merits. He ordered Walker and the state to immediately cease their efforts to enforce or implement the law, pending a trial on April 16.
“If no injunction is issued, a clearly improper impairment of a most vital element of our society will occur,” Flanagan wrote in his decision, according to the newspaper. “The duty of the court is clear. The case has been made. Irreparable harm is likely to occur in the absence of an injunction.”
Naturally, the state Republican party has responded by calling for an investigation of the judge who issued the injunction, and by claiming he should have recused himself because he was among the more than 1 million citizens who signed a petition to recall Governor Scott Walker.
Judge David Flanagan has not been accused of committing a crime. He's simply facing ethical questions from a group of people who are doing everything they can to suppress voters.