Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 46. Sunrise is 7:05 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 16m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 19.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1803, in New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to…
Courts
Courts, Crime, Daily Bread, Kenosha, Law
Daily Bread for 11.2.21: The Concerns of the Rittenhouse Jurors
by JOHN ADAMS •
Courts, Daily Bread, Elections, Fair Maps, Gerrymandering, Law
Daily Bread for 9.23.21: But Whose New Maps for Wisconsin?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 68. Sunrise is 6:44 AM and sunset 6:49 PM for 12h 04m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 93.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1889, Nintendo Koppai…
Courts, Daily Bread, Elections, Fair Maps, Gerrymandering, Law
Daily Bread for 9.22.21: New Political Maps for Wisconsin by March?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday sees the beginning of Fall in Whitewater with mostly sunny skies and a high of 65. Sunrise is 6:43 AM and sunset 6:50 PM for 12h 07m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 97.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, Pres. Lincoln issues the Emancipation…
Courts, Crime, Law, Wisconsin
Probably Not the Headline the Wisconsin Supreme Court Wanted
by JOHN ADAMS •
Todd Richmond of the Associated Press reports Former drug smuggler can practice law in Wisconsin, state Supreme Court rules: The 4-3 ruling reverses a decision from the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners to block Abby Padlock from becoming an attorney in the state. According to court documents, Padlock became a drug smuggler to earn money so…
City, Courts, Crime, Law, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Supreme Court Grants New Trial in State of Wisconsin v. Alan M. Johnson
by JOHN ADAMS •
Alan M. Johnson was convicted in Walworth County of first-degree reckless homicide in the death of his brother-in-law. (Johnson’s late brother-in-law is identified in today’s high court opinion as ‘K.M.’ The events of the case took place in Whitewater, and the Walworth County trial was before Circuit Judge Kristine Drettwan.) Johnson appealed his conviction, and…
Biden-Harris, Courts, Elections, Law, Presidential race 2020, Trump, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects, 4-3, Trump Campaign’s Petition to Overturn Wisconsin Election Result
by JOHN ADAMS •
Earlier this morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied the Trump Campaign’s petition to overturn, on various grounds, Joe Biden & Kamala Harris’s popular-vote victory in the state. (As a matter of law, the state’s high court affirmed a prior judgment and order against the Trump Campaign in the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County, Stephen A.…
2020 Presidential Election, America, Courts, Documentary, Economy, Film, Law, Trump
Frontline: Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Supreme Court
by JOHN ADAMS •
With the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett days before the 2020 presidential election, conservatives solidified a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court — and the chance to shape American life and policy for a generation. Behind it all was a powerful Republican from Kentucky: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for whom Barrett’s confirmation was…
Courts, Federal Government, Law, Laws/Regulations
U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on DACA in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California
by JOHN ADAMS •
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program allows certain persons who arrived in the United States as children to apply for a forbearance of removal. Today, a five-person majority of the nation’s high court ruled in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California that the Trump Administration violated the Administrative…
Coronavirus, Courts, Federal Government, Law, Local Government, Public Health, State Government, Trump
Practical Implications After Wisconsin v. Palm: The Divide over the Novel Coronavirus
by JOHN ADAMS •
On March 24th, I first began a draft of this post. It seemed to probable then – and it is true now – that Trump would effectually abandon a social distancing or stay-at-home approach, and encourage business as usual to resume promptly. The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling in Wisconsin v. Palm has brought that abandonment to Wisconsin…
Courts, Law, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Supreme Court: Wisconsin Legislature v. Palm
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embedded below is the decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Wisconsin Legislature v. Palm. On a 4-3 decision, Wisconsin’s highest court has ruled that the Safer at Home order is unenforceable. (Readers have asked me via email me over the last week how the court might rule. I have replied to each message that…
Congress, Courts, Law, Litigation
Supreme Court Oral Arguments in Trump Financial Records Cases
by JOHN ADAMS •
Updated, 5.12.20: Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP (consolidated with Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG) and Trump v. Vance overviews from SCOTUSblog (a privately-published blog about the U.S. Supreme Court). Transcripts of the 5.12.20 oral argument: 19-715 Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP & Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG and 19-635 Trump v. Vance.
Courts, Elections, Law, Legislature, Politics, Public Health, Wisconsin
‘This Principle Is More Important Than Winning’
by JOHN ADAMS •
In the New York Times, Justice-elect Jill Karofsky writes I’m the Judge Who Won in Wisconsin. This Principle Is More Important Than Winning (‘We must get away from a partisan view of the law‘): In cities like Milwaukee and Green Bay, the wait [to vote] ended up being as long as three hours. And because the…