Not content with exempting Foxconn from state permitting and environmental reviews, or letting it skip paying $150 in construction-related sales taxes, or handing back to he company $2.85 billion billion in business income taxes it didn't have to paying the first place, the legislature's budget-writing committee added this only-for-Foxconn privilege:
Immediate review by the State Supreme Court of any District Court ruling (and its immediate suspension until the State Supreme Court issues a decision), thus giving Foxconn fast access to a court whose 5-2 right-wing majority members are either personally beholden to Scott Walker for their initial appointments to the judiciary or share with him influential, major campaign donors.
If that precedent is set, expect the big mining companies, industrial-scale animal feedlots and dairies, and other marge business to demand the same judicial shortcut.
This is more than giving one company the keys to the castle. It's also giving Foxconn access to a special castle back door so they won't have to even climb the front steps.
Immediate review by the State Supreme Court of any District Court ruling (and its immediate suspension until the State Supreme Court issues a decision), thus giving Foxconn fast access to a court whose 5-2 right-wing majority members are either personally beholden to Scott Walker for their initial appointments to the judiciary or share with him influential, major campaign donors.
If that precedent is set, expect the big mining companies, industrial-scale animal feedlots and dairies, and other marge business to demand the same judicial shortcut.
This is more than giving one company the keys to the castle. It's also giving Foxconn access to a special castle back door so they won't have to even climb the front steps.