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Daily Bread for 3.31.22: The One Effective Trick Robin Vos Learned He Learned Before Trump

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will see snow with a high of 36.  Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 7:20 PM for 12h 43m 44s of daytime.  The moon is new with 0.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1889, the Eiffel Tower officially opens.  While Speaker of the Assembly Vos has spent…

Courts, Daily Bread, Elections, Law

Daily Bread for 3.24.22: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Legislative Maps

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will see scattered rain or snow showers with a high of 38.  Sunrise is 6:49 AM and sunset 7:12 PM for 12h 23m 22s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 58.5% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in…

Courts, Daily Bread, Elections, Gerrymandering, Law

Daily Bread for 12.1.21: On Schedule, the Pretext for Wisconsin’s Next Gerrymandering

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 48.  Sunrise is 7:06 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 14m 45s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 11.1% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1941, Japanese Emperor Hirohito gives the final approval to initiate war against the…

Courts, Daily Bread, Elections, Gerrymandering, Law

Daily Bread for 11.30.21: Watching the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Redistricting

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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, Daily Bread, Elections, Fair Maps, Gerrymandering, Law

Daily Bread for 9.23.21: But Whose New Maps for Wisconsin?

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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…

City, Courts, Crime, Law, Walworth County, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Supreme Court Grants New Trial in State of Wisconsin v. Alan M. Johnson

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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

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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.…