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In one of the first cases to rely on the U.S. Supreme Court's McCutcheon decision, a federal judge just tried to open the door to new levels of corruption in Wisconsin elections -- but the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals could still stop him.

Wisconsin Democrats and their allies who are trying to take out Republican Gov. Scott Walker have invested all their hopes in Mary Burke, a Harvard-educated political newcomer whose father started Trek Bicycle when she was a teenager. For Democrats and their friends in organized labor, this race is personal. They mean to avenge Walker's evisceration of union power as he builds his resume for a possible presidential run. But for Burke, the campaign also poses an awkward challenge: She can't talk too stridently about her opponent's most provocative actions for fear of alienating independent voters, many of whom supported both Walker's union crackdown and President Barack Obama's re-election bid. And they will decide this contest, too.

Far right WI Governor Scott Walker is contemplating finishing the college degree he walked away from decades ago. Many suspect the Governor feels he needs the degree before making a bid in the Republican primaries for the Presidency in 2016.

The Wall Street Journal opinion page has a new installment in its campaign against Wisconsin's "John Doe" campaign finance probe, this time in an effort to resuscitate the image of Kelly Rindfleisch, a top aide to Scott Walker implicated in two John Doe investigations.

Emails released from the conflict of interest investigation into Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's office have exposed something unintended: his aides' unabashed racism. Back and forth between staff members had off-color jokes, and encouraged racist stereotypes of those on welfare.

When new Bureau of Labor Statistic numbers were released last week showing union density rates holding firm nationally at 11.3 percent, organized labor took a semi-bow. After all, there was a dearth of pro-union legislation in 2013 while anti-union bills flooded many statehouses by the dozens, so maintaining the status quo was nothing short of a feat by some accounts. However, surprise gains in two states proved that workers' rights might be doing more than just treading water.

If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's new book is a soft launch of his 2016 presidential run, it should also act as fair warning to voters: Walker is shamelessly biased and misunderstands what it fundamentally means to be American.

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Opposition to the birth control benefit has been framed by the bishops and their allies as an infringement of their religious liberty, turning the definition of the term on its head by claiming a right to impose their theological views on those who believe differently.

A new scandal has been brewing in Wisconsin that shows the brazen nature of the state’s GOP under Governor Scott Walker. The latest incident, being called the “United Sportsmen” scandal, involves the Republican caucus writing language into the two-year budget that all but guaranteed a Department of Natural Resources fund went to a politically active organization connected to Americans for Prosperity.

After being sued for violating an open records request pertaining to her relationship with the ALEC, Wisconsin State Sen. Leah Vukmir is claiming that she cannot be sued while in office, a motion that could change the face of how politicians deal with open records requests in the future. The move would effectively create a precedent in which a member of the state legislature could not be held accountable for failing or refusing to comply with an open records request.

'Citizen Koch', a documentary tracing the line of corporate money from industry to politicians after the Supreme Court ruling in Citizen's United, has been given new life after an extraordinary fundraising effort on the website Kickstarter. After being effectively censored by Koch surrogates, the film had all but died before this last ditch attempt to gain funding to independently distribute it.

A new interactive map shows an influx of out-of-state donations coming Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's way since he enacted his landmark, anti-union piece of legislation, Act 10, in February of 2011.