The Evers administration has filed its response to the lawsuit filed over the governor’s Safer at Home extension.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court still hasn’t said if it will hear oral arguments. Legislative leaders who sued — saying Secretary of Health designee Andrea Palm over-reaching when the order was extended — now have until Thursday to offer their own response.
The Evers administration says the cases of COVID-19 were doubling every three-point-four days when the first order was issued. Now, that doubling has slowed to every 12-point-four days.
Attorney General Josh Kaul says state statutes give broad powers to the D-H-S in such an undisputed emergency.
