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Suffrage for Justices to the Supreme Court. 3 24 2026

As we again take the opportunity to engage in suffrage for the supreme court in Wisconsin, it is important to digress on this phenomenon. To begin with, it should be noted the United States Supreme Court is not subject to universal suffrage, Rather it is appointees of the president, rubber stamped by the upper house of Congress.

What this means is twofold: One, the president is not always in control of a majority, yet was still appointed. We have seen this repeatedly in the last 25 years; George II was appointed without a majority, then Donald Trump was appointed without a majority. It seems to be the Republican bourgeoisie who do this, they call it the “electoral college” method of dictatorship. They then appoint the Supreme Court justices for life; then generally last decades. Trump did three this last time when he was appointed.

Secondly, Congress goes along with this. The Senate approves the candidates, giving their rubber stamp of approval in the upper house.

The Senate is appointed by two senators a state, which gives massive amounts of power to the large scale landowners, who till much of the rural areas. They benefit by states like South Dakota having the same power in the Senate as Illinois, home of Chicago. The same is true for New York and LA. The power structure is the same, the founders, Virginia plantation owners, did this for a reason; they feared British industry would force change in the slave owning aristocracy. They chose equal power for large scale landowners to industry by having 2 votes per state in the upper house.

It is basically a miracle the big cities ever win control of Congress. And the stakes are enormous, state assistance to large farmers in 2025 was 40.24 billion dollars according to google. It is allocated by the acre, which results in it being of little help to small farmers, who more intensively cultivate this land.

Nationalization of large farms would help greatly, but instead of just buying land with the 42 billion dollars, the Republican bourgeoisie just gives away this money to large landowners, who all benefit from the subsidies. Basically all large farmers get money; it is part of the land tenure arrangement.

The state is not going to buy land and give it to cooperatives. We would have seen attempts at this by now. No, the state assistance is going to support the Republican bourgeoisie, the state does not purchase land for cooperatives.

If the land was going to be nationalized, there would be no price tag. And it would not be the worst soils that the cooperatives would be farming on.

Anyhow, that is the picture generally. What this has to do with Wisconsin is this:

Supreme Court justices are subject to universal suffrage every 10 years. This may seem like a long time, but compared to the United States Supreme Court, it is brief. Wisconsin justices serve as long as they command a majority, which differs from our appointed counterparts who serve without a majority.

Short of having a politburo, there is no alternative to universal suffrage for the judges on the supreme court. The levels of bold faced white collar crimes the supreme court is involved in, with rulings like Citizens United, should show us WIsconsin has the answer; the Wisconsin supreme court is not electing because they are small, rather this is a movement that is logical, and able to be followed on a larger scale, like selecting United States Supreme Court justices for 10 year terms.

We saw last election for supreme court Elon Musk giving away the million dollar checks to his republican bourgeois supporters to vote against democrat Susan Crawford. DC meddles in Wisconsin elections, even though it is only residents of the state that can vote.

No matter, Citizens United and Musk feel no shame in involvement in Wisconsin’s more radical system of universal suffrage.

Incidentally Musk and his Republicans lost the election. Musk hardly even got a slap on the wrist for his million dollar checks, even after explaining they were vetted to be most likely to be Republicans.

The latest suffrage is between Chris Taylor and Maria Lazar are going at it. Lazar was Scott Walker’s lawyer. She is a Trumper, and will be a yes woman for Trump.

Chris Taylor has“..a legislative voting record full of support for unions and public schools, and endorsements out of the gate from the four sitting liberal justices..

“She worked as the public policy director at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, and then spent nearly a decade in the state Assembly…”

WPR 3 24 2026

Lazar, on the other hand:

“During the administration of Governor Scott Walker, Lazar worked as an assistant attorney general in the Wisconsin Department of Justice where she handled litigation in support of Walker’s signature anti-labor law, 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, and then in defense of new security rules implemented to crack down on statewide protests against it. Lazar later took on the job of defending a Republican redistricting law that implemented one of the most aggressive gerrymanders in the country.”

Wikipedia Maria Lazar

The choice could; not be put in starker terms. Ten years of Lazar would be a return to Scott Walker.

“As an assistant attorney general, Lazar defended Republican-drawn legislative maps from gerrymandering claims along with laws on voter ID, abortion and Act 10, which restricted collective bargaining rights for most state employees.”

WPR 2 23 2026

So it should be interesting to see where this goes.

“Brad David Schimel (born February 18, 1965) is an American attorney, former judge, and Republican politician. He most-recently served as interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, from November 2025 until March 16, 2026, when his interim appointment was not extended by the district court judges. The Department of Justice, however, has announced their intention to appoint Schimel to a senior staff position in the U.S. attorney’s office, leaving him as the de facto head of the office. “

Wikipedia Brad Shimel

So here we see what Trump does when he loses an election. Shimel was appointed leader in federal court even though he did not command a majority. I guess Trump doesn’t mind losers as long as they are yes men. Shimel is now appointed without suffrage, the power struggle between DC and Wisconsin could not be more pitched this election. Clearly the republican bourgeoisie is doing DC’s bidding.

The date suffrage will occur is April 7. It is one to watch.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

3 24 2026

Supreme Court Decision Returns Power of the Purse to Congress

With a single court decision by the Supreme Court, Donald Trump and his constant threat of tariffs was ended. The decision was in a court that rarely rules in favor of the worker, where a number of judges were appointed by Trump, 3 in his first term when he assumed power without a majority. It was a 6 to 3 decision.

That is what makes this ruling so remarkable.

“The blockbuster Supreme Court ruling that invalidated President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs ends one chapter of economic uncertainty….”

“Even as the nation’s high court determined Friday that the president had exceeded his authority by slapping tariffs on goods from just about every country in the world, Trump made clear at a White House news conference that he was determined to do so again, though this time within the bounds of the law.”

“The justices’ 6-3 ruling said the president did not have the authority under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose a vast array of import levies on goods from nearly all of the nation’s trading partners.”

Washington Post 2 22 2026

All the Supreme said was taxation was the responsibility of Congress; Congress holds the purse strings of government. As tariffs are a form of taxes; taxes on imports, Congress has to be where tariffs start and stop.

Immediately following the ruling Trump raised global taxes 15%. It is like cutting off your nose to sprite your face.

The next question is how to pay back the tariffs already taken in, 134 billion dollars, which will have to be paid back to the importers who paid tax in the first place. Given they are all American based brokers, or American companies, they don’t have far to go.

Trump has promised to use court to delay reimbursing the importers he tariffed, who are now all clamoring for their money back.

The tax man has been rebuked; his constant threats of tariffs now will take months to come in effect, instead of a social media post of a shout on an airplane to a reporter.

Congress is the responsible party when taxes rise. They never fall, even in periods of prosperity. Nevertheless they are still in control, and reminded us they had the power to use the court to clip Don’s wings. Without tax threats Don is a loud voice with no real clout behind him.

““The President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope,” Roberts wrote. “In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.””

“Trump cannot, Roberts wrote.”

“Roberts pointed out IEEPA made no mention of tariffs and that he could find little in the law to authorize such massive levies, writing bluntly: “Those words cannot bear such weight.”

“He also said Trump’s move ran afoul of the “major questions doctrine,” a rule the court has enunciated in recent years that holds that any presidential action that has major economic or political ramifications must have explicit authorization by Congress.”

“The stakes of the ruling are enormous: The tariffs affect trillions of dollars in trade, and the government collected nearly $134 billion in levies through Dec. 14 under the authority challenged in the case.”

Washington Post ibid.

Perhaps they have been saving the 134 billion dollars, in case something like this happened? Otherwise it means more taxes on top of what is paid the importer, considering the consumer paid the bulk of the taxes, the tariffs taxes on imports.

Expect export commodities value to fall, as the tariffs made their value higher than what they would have been without the tax. BYD vs Ford is not here yet, but is getting closer.

Without protectionism it is questionable how many nonmetric products will be competitive in the world market. With the declining value of the dollar nominally more will have to be paid by the consumer for the same product, inflation. Exports were balanced with heavy taxation on competitors’ products, to make American products more competitive.

The global tax of 15% he has now levied for 150 days seems less personal than the normal tariff for Dons crotchets. This one is not directed at a single competitor, rather the whole world market. It sort of admits non metric production will never be able to compete in the world market.

Some of the tariffs were on Cuba, the other country adjacent to Mar a Lago, Trump’s palace. He cut off their oil,will he return the tariff money now illegal?

How embarrassing. The taxman, who raised everyone’s taxes by heavily taxing imports, now has to contend with Congress. What happens if Don tries to use tariffs again? Will the Supreme Court change their mind? Will they have too? They made it crystal clear taxes are Congress’s responsibility, and Trump is president, not congress.

We will be in for an interesting spectacle when the 134 billion dollars have to be paid back. They could devalue the currency further, another 10% next year as this makes the debt normally worth less in real labor time. This surplus value has already been paid for by the consumer in the form of higher prices. Now another 134 billion on top of this?

It’s that or the capitalist is honest enough to lower the prices on his goods due to being repaid the tariff. This scenario looks unlikely.

In the end this exercise results in massive inflation, the price of everything has been going through the roof under Don. The leverage of tariffs as punishment has limits. Congress does own the purse strings of government, it has been that way since founding. All this did was test the boundaries of what can happen if the Republican bourgeoisie have control of both houses of Congress and the president. Clearly it was chaos.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

2 23 2026