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Tony Evers' cabinet because of a dispute over whether 15 appointees of Gov. "I think some of those cabinet members are going to be in trouble," Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau said of Evers' top advisers. Fitzgerald said the GOP stance was a reaction to the court fight over a different set of appointees made by Evers' Republican predecessor. “The political theatrics from Republican leaders are getting old," said a statement from Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling of La Crosse. In one case, a Dane County judge last month ruled all actions taken during the session were invalid. In response, Evers rescinded the 82 appointments made by Walker. Evers has since reinstated 67 of the 82 Walker appointees, erasing doubts about whether they hold those positions. He contends those jobs are vacant, while Fitzgerald and other Republicans say they continue to be held by the Walker appointees. People are pretty upset about Ellen and about Georgia.” Fitzgerald said he wanted to see how the court cases play out before determining how to handle the confirmation of Evers' cabinet. RELATED: Lame-duck scorecard: Where the cases stand in the fight over GOP laws limiting Wisconsin governor He said he expected some of the cases to eventually be resolved by the state Supreme Court — and was glad conservative Judge Brian Hagedorn won a seat last week on the high court.

Democrats say Republicans spoiled chances for bipartisanship with a lame-duck session that peeled power away from Democratic Gov. No," Evers said. As we get further down the line in the budget-making, I’m sure we’ll meet more often.” Fitzgerald said lawsuits challenging the laws Republican legislators passed to limit Evers' power are hampering progress. RELATED: Lame-duck scorecard: Where the cases stand in the fight over GOP laws limiting Wisconsin governor "I think we’re still trying to figure out who to talk to, how to talk to them, and when to talk to them," Fitzgerald said in a statement. If they talked regularly, Evers might be able to persuade Republicans to adopt some of his budget plans, Vos said. Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz said Evers is not interested in political strategy but in addressing public policies. Evers." "Is this something that could be done without legislation?" "I’m happy with the relationship we’ve been able to build with Speaker Vos and the Assembly — we’ll continue to work together and hopefully the governor will decide to engage," Fitzgerald said. Hintz said it's also up to Republicans to be willing to negotiate with a Democratic governor.

As Wisconsin's newly elected Democratic Governor Tony Evers prepares to take office in January, the Republican-controlled state legislature held a lame duck session to pass laws to limit the powers of the governor's office. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a…

Republican Gov. Scott Walker in neck-and-neck race with Democrat Tony Evers. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC…

CNN's John Avlon breaks down the GOP's claims that they will protect key parts of Obamacare, despite their efforts to repeal it in recent years.

Donald Trump began his Presidential campaign by calling Mexican migrants criminals and rapists, he began his Presidency by signing an anti-Muslim travel ban, and he’s going into the midterms doing everything he can to gin up fears about immigrants. Along the way, his Administration has put DACA in limbo, instituted a policy of separating parents from children at the border, held children in cages, slashed the number of refugees the country takes in every year, and proposed making it harder for immigrants who receive public assistance to become legal residents. His has been an anti-immigrant Administration as much as it’s been anything else. On Tuesday, Axios published portions of an interview its reporters recently conducted with Trump, in which the President asserted that he had the power to end birthright citizenship by executive order. “It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump said. Legal opinion is against Trump here—the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”—and it’s not even clear from his quotes to Axios when or if he intends to sign such an order. “Birthright citizenship has become a contentious issue in the Republican primary race,” she wrote, “with outright calls that it should be done away with or disavowed (Trump, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham); that it ‘doesn’t make any sense’ (Ben Carson); that it needs to be ‘reëxamined’ (Chris Christie); or that it is being ‘taken advantage’ of in ways that should be countered (Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush)—or just a waffling unwillingness to defend it (Scott Walker).” Trump wasn’t alone here—most of the Republican field saw questioning birthright citizenship as a necessary position to take to win the primaries. But staking out the most extreme positions, demonizing and dehumanizing foreigners, ragings against “those people,” this is how he won elections in 2016, and this is how he wants to win them next week.

President Trump claimed that despite 8 years of trying to repeal Obamacare, the GOP will protect pre-existing conditions while the Democrats won't. Republicans are shifting their rhetoric on health care as polls show the health care law's popularity rising. Jared…

Scott Walker watched as former Gov. Tommy Thompson exhorted a friendly Republican crowd to help Walker prevail in his surprisingly precarious race for a third term. “The recipe is Scott Walker. You know like a good chocolate chip cookie, it sort of melts in your mouth? You know it really feels good.” But the old recipe for victory may not be working in a midterm election where Democrats appear poised to do well across the country. Ominous polls have Walker in trouble, and he’s sounding the alarm to supporters. Democrats, after years of failure and frustration, are daring to hope that they may finally slay their political white whale. If the onetime presidential candidate and Republican rising star loses, it would qualify as one of the bigger upsets of the midterm election because of his record in difficult situations before — winning election and re-election despite two victories in his state by Barack Obama, and turning back a 2012 recall attempt by Democrats incensed by his attack on public-sector unions. A Walker loss to Tony Evers, the bland 66-year-old state education superintendent who enjoys Egg McMuffins and playing the card game euchre, would also give Democrats hope for the future in a state that Republicans have had a firm grip on for eight years. Walker’s approval rating remains below 50 percent and President Donald Trump’s is worse, even though Trump carried the state two years ago.

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel responds to Democrats focusing on primaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota in their midterm push. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.…