entire democratic state caucus, fleeing the state to keep them from doing it. republicans rammed that union stripping thing through the legislature. the means by which republicans got the union stripping bill through the wisconsin legislature was considered dubious enough that a lawsuit was filed and a judge stopped it from being implemented. to get around that wall, the measure was tied up in court. republicans had planned to pass it all over again to convene in an extraordinary session to ram it through again. this time by adding it to the state's budget. but today the wisconsin state supreme court overturned the lower court decision and reinstated the union stripping law. still other lawsuits are out there and even more are expected. this one is not over. the furor caused by union stripping in wisconsin has led to recall elections for a substantial portion of the state senate, which could flip control