The day that Janet Protasiewic won her spot on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, tilting the chamber's majority in favor of liberals and restoring hope that maybe the state can break free from the iron clad GOP gerrymandered control, the Republicans won a single obscure seat in the state senate. That wingives them a super-majority with enough votes to impeach any Supreme Court Justice. I expect impeachment proceedings of Protasiewic (and maybe some other liberal justices) will be the first order of business in the legislature's next session.
I wonder what happens to a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice's seat when the Justice is impeached? Is it just vacant until the next special election? Does the governor get to appoint a replacement (if so, that's no good for the legislature, the Governor is a Democrat). Can the legislature just keep impeaching all the left-leaning Justices to paralyze the Court from operating?
Really the only check there seems to be on this nonsense is the fact that the Protasiewic victory got national attention. So the effort to impeach her on transparently bogus grounds (she hasn't even taken her seat yet!) is going to focus a lot of attention on how Wisconsin is not really a democracy anymore. Or at least not until the new Supreme Court majority can start to rule on some of the dubious legal reforms the Republicans have done to maintain a lock on control of this very purple state.
