The liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 4-3 to strike down a 176-year-old law that made it a crime for anyone other than the mother to intentionally end the life of an unborn child.  The ruling means that abortions remain legal in Wisconsin up to around 20 weeks after fertilization and keeps in place a December 2023 decision from a lower court judge that said the abortion ban was not in effect. The 1849 law, which had been blocked in 1973 by Roe v. Wade, was re-litigated after the Supreme Court ruled in June 2022 that there is no constitutional right to an abortion. The four liberal justices on the court said the Wisconsin legislature had effectively repealed the 1849 law by passing subsequent pro-life laws in the years after Roe.  JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free “We conclude that, under the unique circumstances presented here, the legislature impliedly repealed [the 1849 law] as to abortion by enacting comprehensive legislation about virtually every aspect of abortion including where, when, and how healthcare providers may lawfully perform abortions,” Justice Rebecca Dallet wrote in the majority opinion. “That comprehensive legislation so thoroughly covers the entire subject of abortion that it was clearly meant as a substitute for the 19th century near-total ban on abortion.” In a dissent, conservative Justice Annette Ziegler argued that the liberal majority had disregarded the law through a “novel” approach and failed to identify a specific statute that repealed the 1849 law.  “The majority opinion is a jaw-dropping exercise of judicial will, placing personal preference over the constitutional roles of the three branches of our state government and upending a duly enacted law,” she wrote. “In this dangerous departure from our constitutional design, four members of the court make up and apply their own version of implied repeal, failing to hew to any semblance of traditional judicial decision-making or jurisprudence.” Ziegler added that the majority arbitrarily chose which abortion laws to remain in effect.  Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul sued several Wisconsin district attorneys over the 1849 law, arguing that the legislature implicitly repealed it. Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski defended the law in court, arguing that later pro-life laws passed did not supersede the original 1849 law.  “The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s role is to follow the Constitution, not to make law,” Wisconsin GOP chair Brian Schimming said in response to the court’s decision. “This issue should be resolved in the legislature and by voters, not by far-left justices parading as legislators.” Liberals have held a firm grip on the court for the last two years, easily winning judicial races in both 2023 and 2025, which has kept the court’s ideological slant leaning to the Left. The court last week refused to hear challenges to Wisconsin’s current congressional map, after Democrats argued that the boundaries illegally favor Republicans, leaving the current map in place for the 2026 midterm elections.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and his team are racing to get the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on the president’s desk, pushing a message of economic growth in these final days. “Nobody wants to talk about GROWTH, which will be the primary reason that the Big, Beautiful Bill will be one of the most successful pieces of legislation ever passed,” the president said in a Wednesday morning Truth Social post. “THIS GROWTH has already begun at levels never seen before. Trillions of Dollars are now being invested into the USA, more than ever before.” “Likewise,” he added, “hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Tariffs are filling up the coffers of Treasury. The Tariff money has already arrived and is setting new records! We are growing our way out of the Sleepy Joe Biden MESS that he and the Democrats left us, and it is happening much faster than anyone thought possible.” Trump promised Wednesday that the United States will “make a fortune this year,” but only if the reconciliation bill is passed. “As they say, Trump’s been right about everything, and this is the easiest of them all to predict,” the president concluded. “Republicans, don’t let the Radical Left Democrats push you around. We’ve got all the cards, and we are going to use them. Last year America was a ‘DEAD’ Nation, with no hope for the future, and now it’s the ‘HOTTEST NATION IN THE WORLD!’ MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) The administration is also pushing back against the Congressional Budget Office, which argues that the bill would add trillions to U.S. deficits. The White House says that the CBO score doesn’t paint the full picture. “The CBO score is not designed to be a total picture of where the deficit is going over coming years,” Stephen Miran, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. “It’s designed to help Congress pass legislation through the very specific process of reconciliation, and, therefore, it corresponds to the very specific and complicated rules of that system.” Miran explained that it excludes the better economic growth that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” would provide, together with the president’s other policies. Focusing solely on that CBO score is misleading, he said, calling it a “summation of individual provisions.” “The CBO has a very small conception of how much additional economic growth there will be as a result of this, and it really undercounts them, and it has undercounted them in the past, too,” he added, arguing that the CBO score “ignores lots of sources of deficit reduction that are just not part of the scoring process.” The Republican-led Senate narrowly passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on Tuesday with the help of Vice President JD Vance, who cast the tie-breaking vote. The vote ignited hope that the bill will get to Trump’s desk by the Fourth of July. Heavily bolstered by the president, it is possible that this could happen. “THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL DEAL IS ALL ABOUT GROWTH,” Trump posted Wednesday morning. “IF PASSED, AMERICA WILL HAVE AN ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE LIKE NEVER BEFORE.”

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