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Daily Bread for 1.30.22: Trump Teases Pardons for Insurrectionists and Rioters

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 27.  Sunrise is 7:10 AM and sunset 5:06 PM for 9h 55m 59s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 3.6% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1930, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders that…

America, Crime, Documentary, History, Insurrection

Inside the January 6th Capitol Riot

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Over the last year, Trumpism has advanced three grand lies: against the significance of the pandemic, against Biden’s clear win in the presidential election, and against the fact of a violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. In response to that third lie – that there was no violent insurrection – there is ample…

Courts, Crime, Law, Wisconsin

Probably Not the Headline the Wisconsin Supreme Court Wanted

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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

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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…

City, Crime, Misconduct, Negligence, Public Relations, University

WGTD.com: UW-Whitewater Student Faces Allegations of Assault After Viral TikTok Post Overnight

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 WGTD.com reports that UW-Whitewater Student Faces Allegations of Assault After Viral TikTok Post Overnight: Nearly 3,000 signatures have been gathered in less than 24 hours on Change.org, a digital petition website, after an alleged overnight assault by a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men’s basketball player left at least one woman bloodied. The petition calls for the removal of…

Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Crime, Disinformation, Fellow Traveler, Insurrection, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson

Ron Johnson: ‘No Enemies to the Right’?

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During an interview yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson declared of the Capitol riot that ‘this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.’ Tim Elfrink reports that As a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol last month, rioters battered police with a multitude of weapons: metal flagpoles, baseball bats, wrenches and clubs. Many soaked police in caustic…