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Wisconsin Law News

Judge to hear challenge to Wisconsin's voter ID law
MADISON (Reuters) - A Wisconsin judge will hear a legal challenge this week to the state's new controversial voter photo identification law. Lawyers for The League of Women Voters, which says the measure violates the state constitution by disenfranchising eligible voters, present oral arguments against the law in a Dane County Circuit Court on Thursday. Their lawsuit is asking the court to block ...

Assembly Republicans pass bill to ease opening of iron mine in northwestern Wisconsin
Assembly Republicans scored a major victory Thursday in their push to help a Florida company dig a huge open-pit mine in Wisconsin's beloved north woods, passing a bill to ease the state's intricate permitting requirements despite conservationists' fears the project will devastate one of the state's most pristine regions.

Sen. Fitzgerald leads Legislature in travel reimbursements
Madison - The Wisconsin Senate's top Republican leader collected more travel reimbursements last year than any other legislator.