Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty

WILL President Rick Esenberg discussed WILL's move to file motions intervening in two lawsuits which seek to overturn Wisconsin's current Congressional maps. WILL is defending those maps on behalf of a group of Wisconsin voters.

WILL Deputy Counsel Luke BergWILL Deputy Counsel Luke Berg discussed WILL's move to file motions intervening in two lawsuits which seek to overturn Wisconsin's current Congressional maps. WILL is defending those maps on behalf of a group of Wisconsin voters.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court allowed two new legal challenges to the state’s congressional maps to continue forward by appointing two separate three–judge panels to hear the cases. WILL had argued against such an appointment as any attempt to redraw the Congressional district lines in this manner would violate the U.S. Constitution.

WILL and the Center for Individual Rights filed a major lawsuit against the Trump Administration, targeting the foundation for many of the remaining federal DEI programs: the preference for so-called “socially disadvantaged individuals.”

WILL Associate Counsel Lauren Greuel talked how WILL notified Lighthouse Learning Academy, on behalf of a Wisconsin parent, that it is prepared to take legal action over the school’s refusal to provide certain curriculum materials, even though most of the items requested were non-religious, simply because some were created by a Christian publisher or contained a few religious references.

WILL Research Director, Will Flanders, discussed DPI's newly released report cards for the 2024-25 school year. Once again, the agency has quietly changed the standards that determine how schools are rated—making it easier to appear successful without actually improving student performance.

A new report from WILL, titled “Energy Choice for Wisconsin: A Free-Market Case for Community Solar,” outlines how privately financed community solar projects can expand consumer choice, strengthen the electric grid, preserve farmland, and inject market competition into Wisconsin’s monopoly utility system.

WILL President Rick Esenberg joined the Point Taken podcast with Steve Scaffidi to discuss the current state of the Republican Party and what it means to be conservative.

WILL is once again defending Wisconsin’s congressional maps, filing briefs in opposition to an overtly political, nonsensical, and last-minute attempt to redraw Wisconsin’s maps on the eve of the midterm election. The lawsuits, filed by Law Forward and Marc Elias’s legal group, both claim Wisconsin’s congressional map is an illegal gerrymander.

WILL Deputy Counsel Dan Lennington discussd a new rule issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation that suspends race and sex-based quotas within the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program.

WILL President Rick Esenberg joined FOX6 Open Record to discuss the First Amendment in the wake of political violence, aggressive rhetoric, and employment decisions afterwards.

WILL Research Director, Will Flanders, unveiled a new report, “The WILL of The People: A Roadmap to Enforce Wisconsin’s Citizenship Voting Amendment,” which outlines a clear process to audit Wisconsin’s voter rolls using existing state and federal data.

WILL filed a new federal complaint against the Jefferson County Public School District (JCPS) in Louisville, Kentucky, after discovering a race-based funding scheme that allocates over $35 million in funds to students based on the color of their skin.

WILL Associate Counsel, Lauren Greuel, discussed Wisconsin's falling student math and literacy scores, and potential education solutions.

While speaking to students at Utah Valley University, prominent conservative activist, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed. WILL President Rick Esenberg discussed the news.

WILL filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Kally Bishop, a highly skilled special education teacher at Thoreau Elementary, a part of the Madison Metropolitan School District. Kally was “surplussed” or involuntarily transferred over less qualified teachers based on the District’s race-laden scoring system.

WILL Deputy Counsel, Lucas Vebber, discussed WILL's latest letter to the DOJ, which outlines potential concerns with the Wisconsin Election Commission’s (WEC) maintenance of the statewide voter registration list and suggests follow-up questions to be posed to WEC.