JCRAR Co-Chair Neylon Issues Statement on WI Supreme Court Ruling Stripping Legislature’s Admin Rule Oversight Powers

JCRAR Co-Chair Neylon Issues Statement on WI Supreme Court Ruling

Stripping Legislature’s Admin Rule Oversight Powers

Madison – Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court delivered it’s ruling in the lawsuit Evers v. Marklein, related to legislative oversight powers of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR). In response to the ruling which stripped JCRAR of its ability to provide oversight of administrative rules coming from unelected state agency bureaucrats, Co-Chair Adam Neylon issued the following statement:

“The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s recent decision strips the Legislature of its long-standing ability — through JCRAR — to pause or block administrative rules. This removes important protections for citizens, businesses, and anyone affected by government regulations, while granting unchecked power to Governor Evers and his agencies.

“By gutting legislative oversight, the court has weakened the very foundation of our democratic system of checks and balances.

“Many Wisconsin state agencies have broad power to create rules. This new court ruling takes away the Legislature’s ability to protect the public from agencies using that power to push their own policy agendas however and whenever they see fit.”

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