Wisconsin’s highest court is set to decide whether it is legal for local jails to hold detainees at the request of federal immigration authorities.
On Dec. 3, a majority of justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted to take up a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of Voces de la Frontera, a Milwaukee-based immigrant rights group. They granted the ACLU’s request to hear the case as an original action, allowing it to skip the lower courts entirely.
The court currently has a 4–3 liberal majority. Four justices, who were not identified in the order, voted to accept the case. Conservative Justices Annette Ziegler and Rebecca Bradley dissented….