The Wisconsin Supreme Court has assumed jurisdiction over a lawsuit involving a Dane County clerk's advice to voters to mark themselves as indefinitely confined because of the governor's stay-at-home order to get around Wisconsin's photo ID requirement.

The Wisconsin Legislature's top Republicans told Democratic county clerks on Friday to stop telling people they can mark themselves as indefinitely confined to get around photo ID requirements for absentee ballots, saying the governor's stay-at-home order isn't a lockdown.

The Wisconsin Assembly voted along party lines, 60-36, Tuesday in favor of a bill meant to speed up legal challenges made to recently passed state laws.

The Wisconsin Assembly is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that seeks to speed up the timeline for a challenged law to make its way through the courts.

The state Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would grant the right to appeal rulings blocking state laws.

The Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor voted 3-2 Tuesday in favor of a bill that proponents say would force more prompt rulings on appeals of circuit courts’ injunctions.

Candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court jabbed at each other Wednesday as they filed their nomination signatures, attacking each other's tactics and trading barbs over experience.

Teacher unions and the League of Women Voters have filed two quixotic lawsuits against laws developed this year by the Republican-controlled state government.

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The League of Women Voters sued Thursday to block Wisconsin’s new voter photo identification law, arguing that the state constitution clearly only bars children, felons and the mentally incompetent from voting, not people who lack photo IDs. In its lawsuit filed in Dane County Circuit Court, the League’s state chapter contends ...

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s new law requiring photo identification be shown at the polls will be filed in the next week or two, the head of the state chapter of the League of Women Voters told the election oversight board Monday. Andrea Kaminski told the Government Accountability Board ...

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PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixteen Democratic senators want the Justice Department to look into whether voting rights are being jeopardized in states that require photo identification in order for people to vote. The lawmakers wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to express concern that millions of voters do not have a government-issued ID — particularly ...