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Maria S. Lazar: “If the people of my state of Wisconsin go to the through…”

Featuring: Maria S. Lazar, Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District II

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Published | Video Starts at 35:31

So if a challenge to this law is brought before the court, have you essentially prejudged the case? Not at all. Not at all. What I've said there is If the people of my state of Wisconsin go to the through their legislators and decide that they want to change it, if not 20 weeks, make it 18, 22, whatever they want to do and then the legislature passes a law that the governor signs, we and it comes to the court and I'm on the state supreme Court. That's a law that one would have a presumption of constitutionality. And that's what I would start with and then I would do. You know, I find it really interesting in these elections that everyone talks about about these hot button … (35:31–35:54)

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Asserts that any law passed by the Wisconsin legislature and signed by the governor would have a presumption of constitutionality.

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