WILL President and General Counsel, Rick Esenberg, joined Matt Rothschild of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, and Mark Pitsch and Phil Brinkman both with the Wisconsin State Journal, to discuss legislative proposals to reform Wisconsin's election laws.
Lawsuit paved way for current legislative effort to modernize law
October 15, 2015, Milwaukee, WI – In a lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a federal court has permanently enjoined Wisconsin’s statute that prohibits a political action committee, or PAC, from making ...
"Rick Esenberg, president of the conservative Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty, said it’s typically easy to guess which groups or individuals contribute to issue advocacy groups on both sides of the aisle.
Esenberg also said Wisconsin lawmakers and regulators have failed to define ...
Last year, Judge Sykes, on behalf of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, authored a decision stating that Wisconsin’s campaign finance laws violate “the constitutional limits on the government’s power to regulate independent political speech.” According to the Court, ...
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The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (“WILL”) has filed a lawsuit against the ...