Scott Walker's Kill the Unions Bill Heads for His Desk

The lower house of the legislature passed it today.

There are some real questions as to whether this is is legal, so the Wisconsin Supreme Court, currently 4-3 Republican, may very well have the final word.

The reason that this is important is that Wisconsin elects its supreme court justices in partisan elections, and there is an election on  is April 5 with Democrat JoAnne Kloppenburg facing incumbent Republican David Prosser.

Given that this is generally a low turnout sort of election, and that liberal groups are flooding the zone generally right now, the Dem has a real chance of winning, particularly because Prosser was one of the people who chose to ignore the US Supreme Court ruling and let a fellow state Supreme Court judge off for not recusing himself when a major donor to his campaign appeared before him.