In Wisconsin decision, justices reaffirm control on the powers of public health
Justice Rebecca Bradley: "If the people's constitutional rights may be suspended ... in the name of a public health emergency, our freedom is in peril; our republic is lost."
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n a recent state Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin, in which the high court—by the thinnest of thin margins, 4-3—ended Gov. Tony Evers’s ability to issue chain-linked emergency declarations related to the Covid-19 pandemic…