The new Wisconsin governor and the Republicans who control the Legislature are having such a hard time getting along that even the signing of a seemingly innocuous, unanimously approved bill turned into a partisan fight.

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A Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday reinstated laws Republicans passed during a lame-duck session to weaken the Democratic governor and attorney general, but the statutes remain blocked because of a ruling in a separate case.

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The Wisconsin Assembly overwhelmingly approved a bill on Tuesday that would force health insurers to cover pre-existing conditions should Republicans succeed in achieving their long-held goal to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, heading off likely criticism of GOP legislators on the 2020 campaign trail.

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The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate says a lame-duck session to pass a series of GOP priorities before Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers takes office could start as soon as Tuesday.

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The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate said on Wednesday that the state's juvenile prison has "been a mess for some time" and that Gov. Scott Walker's administration should have done more to deal with such concerns earlier.

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Wisconsin lawmakers were scheduled to take public comments on Wednesday on a bill that would eliminate requirements that the governor promptly call special elections to fill legislative vacancies.

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Wisconsin Senate Republicans broke with the state Assembly over a plan to overhaul the state's juvenile-justice system, pursuing a scaled-back proposal on Wednesday that would still close the Lincoln Hills prison by 2021 but would pull back on a proposed $80 million reorganization.

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The Republican leader of the state Senate said Wednesday that changes will be needed to an $80 million juvenile justice overhaul plan that the Assembly passed unanimously and that is a top priority of Gov. Scott Walker.

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Wisconsin sheriffs have joined counties and others in support of a juvenile-justice plan that would close the Lincoln Hills youth prison by 2021.

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Wisconsin Republicans are making another run at toughening the state's alcohol regulations, with the top official in the state Senate contending on Tuesday that the current laws governing brewers, distillers, distributors and retailers "are not being enforced, period."

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The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate has asked Attorney General Brad Schimel to re-open an investigation into how a former state agency handled John Doe investigations involving Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans.

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Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald promised "some type of limitation" Monday on how much it will cost taxpayers for GOP state lawmakers to hire one of the nation's top attorneys to file a legal brief in Wisconsin's ongoing fight over redistricting.

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Republican legislative leaders filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking changes to the newly redesigned ballot for the November election, claiming the one drafted by the nonpartisan elections agency unfairly benefits Democrats.

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There is not enough time for the Legislature to convene in special session and pass a voter identification law that can be in effect for the November election, Republican state Senate leaders said in the wake of a federal court ruling striking down the law.

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Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday he would call legislators into special session to modify Wisconsin's stalled voter photo identification requirements to conform with pending court rulings and reinstate the mandate ahead of the November elections.

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The leader of the Wisconsin Senate said votes are unlikely next year on two anti-abortion bills that were originally scheduled to be taken up in November but hastily pulled after a Democratic senator promised "all out hell" if they were debated.

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Bills designed to toughen Wisconsin's notoriously weak drunken driving laws that passed the state Assembly with bipartisan support may be going nowhere in the Senate.

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The latest proposal to require Wisconsin voters to show photo identification at the polls is moving forward in the state Assembly.

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Gov. Scott Walker wants to replace, without explanation, the former judge who led the nonpartisan elections board during Walker's recall in 2012, raising questions about his motives for the unusual move.

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A closely watched federal trial is set to begin Monday over a Wisconsin law requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls.

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Republican legislators in Wisconsin introduced a bill Thursday that would make it harder to strip public schools of race-based nicknames and would allow schools ordered to abandon such nicknames to keep them.

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The state Assembly is set to pass a Republican bill this week that would allow attorneys to block court orders nullifying state laws, but it looks like it's going to be a while before the Senate gets to it.

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Two Republican legislators are gearing up for another try at toughening the notoriously weak drunken driving laws in Wisconsin, where pounding booze is hard-wired into the culture - and drunken driving kills scores every year.

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What we need in our elections is more politics. Specifically, what we need in the nonpartisan state agency that oversees our elections is more politics.

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The nonpartisan board that oversees elections in Wisconsin too often favors Democrats and needs to be reconstituted, perhaps with a more partisan model like what previously existed, incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Monday.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, the chamber’s top Republican, has approved payments of about $31,000 to a law firm that helped the GOP draw favorable new election maps, a development whose timing outraged Democrats preparing to take ...

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A committee working to recall the state Senate's Republican leader has raised a little more than $3,500 since mid-November.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin’s Supreme Court justices plan to discuss polices on concealed weapons in their state Capitol chambers next month. The state’s new concealed carry law goes into effect Tuesday. The statutes generally prohibit the public from bringing ...

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SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin Senate has begun debating a state budget bill that already passed in the Assembly by a party-line vote. The Republican-led Senate began a session early Thursday afternoon that was ...

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By JASON SMATHERS Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bill mirroring some of the tough enforcement measures of Arizona’s controversial immigration bill was introduced Tuesday by a state Republican legislator in Wisconsin. The legislation introduced by Rep. Don Pridemore ...

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