Wisconsin Republicans are pushing to amend the state constitution to make it harder for criminal defendants to get out on bail, hoping to capitalize on anger over the killing of six people by a driver who was out on bail when authorities say he plowed into a Christmas parade near Milwaukee.

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The Wisconsin Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would prohibit police from using chokeholds, except in life-threatening situations or to defend themselves, while also approving a measure that attempts to stop the defunding of police.

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The full Wisconsin Senate was set Tuesday to take the Legislature's first floor votes on police reform legislation since George Floyd's death.

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Wisconsin lawmakers this week are expected to take their first votes on police reform measures since George Floyd's death sparked a national reckoning on policing and racial justice.

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The Wisconsin Judicial Council could be eliminated under an amendment introduced to a bill to restore pay parity to Wisconsin State Public Defenders.

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An open-records request the business group Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce has made to the Wisconsin Judicial Council is coming with a series of accusations alleging poor procedure and misrepresentation.

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The Wisconsin Civil Justice Council isn’t backing down on statements it made about the separate, policy-recommending Judicial Council in a recent memo to lawmakers on the state’s budget-writing committee

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The Wisconsin Civil Justice Council has requested more public records from the Judicial Council.

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The Wisconsin Senate will be taking up a bill that would make a number of changes to the state's civil-litigation rules.

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Legislation meant to overhaul the state's civil-litigation rules has made it through a panel of lawmakers, but its fate remains uncertain.

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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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Following the introduction of an amendment that would scale back proposed changes to discovery procedures, a bill that would overhaul various parts of the state’s civil-litigation rules is now scheduled to go before a Senate committee on Wednesday.

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Legislation that would change some of the state's civil-litigation rules appears to have stalled in the Wisconsin Senate.

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A bill that would make several changes to the state’s civil-litigation rules appears to have a chance of passing this legislative session after all.

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A judge's order of restitution doesn't make a criminal incident magically disappear, nor does it remove the memory of the incident from the victim's mind. It's an attempt by the judge to make things right for the victim by ordering the convicted person to pay back the victim for criminal wrongdoing against that person.

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A state Senate committee encountered unexpected heated discussion Tuesday over a bill that would create a mandatory minimum sentence for repeat offenders caught with a gun.

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Republicans who control the state Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would eliminate Wisconsin's decades-old 48-hour waiting period for handgun purchases, brushing aside Democrats' concerns that the proposal would enable enraged people to quickly buy a deadly weapon.

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A Racine lawmaker wants to repeal Wisconsin's 48-hour waiting period to buy handguns.

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A Racine man convicted of forging at least seven names on petitions to recall a Republican state senator in 2011 and 2012 has been fined $2,500.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Unwanted text messages sent to cell phones from solicitors would be added to prohibited activity under Wisconsin’s do not call list under a bill headed for debate in the state Senate. The measure passed by a ...

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