Republicans using "Unelected Bureaucrats" to seize Control of Government!

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What is it about all these “unelected bureaucrats” the Republicans keep complaining about? 

This is a story about negating federal and local administrative department secretaries’ power. And very conservative activist state and federal Supreme Court Justices are taking over. It will bring chaos to governing like we’ve never seen. 

Republican push for One Party Authoritarian Rule: It’s no joke, and it’s just two years away. Attacking “unelected bureaucrats” is one way to concentrate authoritarian power while neutralizing those “socialist” Democratic administrative departments they hate so much.

AP: Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have introduced a plan to end elections for three state constitutional offices and let governors fill the positions. Rep. Shae Sortwell told the Journal Sentinel that he thinks the plan to make all three officers appointees will have a better chance to succeed because it would allow the governor to give the treasurer and secretary of state more duties.

“We’re not eliminating anything,” Sortwell said. “We’re putting them under the governor so we can give them more responsibility and more accountability.”

The filing Wis. Legislature v. Andrea Palm states that Palm “Purporting to act under color of State law, an unelected, unconfirmed cabinet secretary has laid claims to a suite of czar-like powers – unlimited in scope and indefinite in duration – over the people of Wisconsin.”

Chief Justice Patience Roggensack: “This case is about the assertion of power by one unelected official, Andrea Palm, and her order to all people within Wisconsin to remain in their homes … to close all businesses that she declares are not ‘essential.’” This was ironic because the Supreme Court justice who provided the deciding vote in the 4-3 decision was Dan Kelly, himself an unelected official.

CapTimes: Justice Rebecca Bradley asked:

 ”Could the (Dept. of Health Service) Secretary under this broad delegation of legislative power or legislative-like power order people out of their homes … to combat the pandemic? What are the limits, constitutional or statutory? There have to be some, don’t there, counsel?” The state’s statutes say DHS “may authorize and implement all emergency measures necessary to control communicable disease.”