The Supreme Court will not take up an appeal from a conservative think tank over Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’s decision to exclude the organization from his invite-only press events. The high court’s decision, which was issued Monday without comment, will uphold lower court rulings that found it lawful for the Democrat to pick and choose who gets to attend some of his news conferences. The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, a Madison-based think tank advocating for a free-market and limited-government capitalism. According to the Institute, journalists working for its new arm were denied access to a briefing that previewed the first budget Evers proposed as governor, as well as other press events during which important public issues were discussed. “The Evers administration’s actions violate the journalists’ constitutional right to free speech, freedom of the press and equal access,” the Institute said in …
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