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Lessons from Wisconsin’s Stand for Freedom
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Lessons from Wisconsin’s Stand for Freedom

By Jon Hersey

May 19, 2020
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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. —Alexander Hamilton1

On May 13, 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Department of Health Services (DHS) secretary Andrea Palm’s lockdown order (Emergency Order 28) was “unlawful, invalid, and unenforceable.”2 The decision immediately freed Wisconsinites t…

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