Constitutions Under Fire

From the League of Women Voters: 

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Our US Constitution is a founding document of our democracy and yet the process for changing it is in danger of becoming politicized. ...

Our Wisconsin Constitution is also under fire. In 2024, there have been 5 state Constitutional Amendments on the ballet. Unlike the regular bills passed by the legislature, the governor cannot veto a proposed constitutional amendment. This indicates that the Wisconsin  legislature is using the constitutional amendment process to bypass the governor’s veto authority. Legislating through constitutional amendments politicizes our democratic process and corrupts our Constitution. ...

Speaker:  Emily Lau is a Staff Attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative, a non-profit, non-partisan organization at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She joined the Initiative after earning her law degree from Yale Law School. While in law school, Emily was an intern at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office in the Complex and Affirmative Litigation Team and a student in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project clinic, helping the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office litigate cases under the California Unfair Competition Law. She was also an editor on the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and a member of the First-Generation Professionals board. Before law school Emily worked in the California Governor’s Office in the Brown and Newsom administrations.

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