February 2024 Newsletter
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Enbridge Line 5 is a 645-mile-long pipeline between Superior, WI and Sarnia, Ontario. It crosses over 400 ecologically sensitive wetlands and waterways in the Great Lakes watershed, which supplies the drinking water for 48 million people. Enbridge has promoted its pipeline as a reliable, safe, and affordable method of delivering energy.
These pipelines impact an incredibly large swath of Wisconsin waterways and drinking water supply. With that in mind, what is Enbridge not sharing with you?
Read MoreA compilation of Enbridge's environmental transgressions summarized by P.K. Hammel, Attorney from Antigo, WI.
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Read MoreWith the upcoming spring election, voters are confused by two constitutional amendments presented by the legislature. These are constitutional amendments and voters need to know the consequences if these amendments are passed. In this post you will find information on these amendments and where the League stands on these amendments. Simply put, we are encouraging voters to vote no! Click Read more to learn why!
Read MoreThis spring, all eyes are on Wisconsin as voters decide who will fill an empty seat on our state Supreme Court. The stakes could not be higher as we can expect the justices to hear cases about voting rights, abortion access and the purity of our water within the next term.
But dark money, or campaign funding from undisclosed donors, complicates this role. Leading up to the primary, big-dollar, out-of-state interest groups are already working overtime to politicize our judges and purchase influence, attempting to block out the voice of Wisconsin voters…
Read MoreJennifer Dorow, Dan Kelly, Everett Mitchell and Janet Protasiewicz are facing each other in the Feb. 21 primary to run in the 2023 spring general election for state Supreme Court justice.
Read the article in PBS Wisconsin online By ZAC SCHULTZ, January 4, 2023
Read more from Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_elections,_2023
Read MoreIn June of 2022, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case Moore v. Harper, which considers the "independent state legislature” theory or ISLT. Adoption of the independent state legislature theory by the US Supreme Court would be detrimental to all Americans. It would prevent state courts from ruling on actions of the state legislature that govern federal elections, essentially giving state legislatures unchecked authority to set the rules for federal elections, including redistricting maps…
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