Good morning.
Thanksgiving in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of thirty-six. Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 4:25 PM, for 9h 29m 28s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the seven hundred forty-third day.
On this day in 1963, Pres. Kennedy is assassinated.
On this day in 1861, for soldiers from Wisconsin reconnaissance of Virginia’s eastern shore ends: the 4th Wisconsin Infantry completes its expedition into Accomac County, Virginia.
Recommended for reading in full:
WISC-TV reports Evers faces $1 billion budget shortfall:
Incoming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will need to find about $1.1 billion to give state agencies all they requested to pay for schools, prisons, Medicaid and other government operations over the next two years.
That’s according to a new report from Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s administration.
(Walker came into office complaining about a structural deficit, and eight years of redistribution in favor of his priorities and allies later, all those ‘bold reforms’ leave the state with a structural deficit.)
Adam Liptak reports Chief Justice Defends Judicial Independence After Trump Attacks ‘Obama Judge’:
“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” he said in a statement. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
(Consider how dense Trump is: he accuses the judiciary of bias, and provokes the chief justice. If Trump should be right, and courts are biased, then by Trump’s own theory he’s provoked a man who now has an incentive to side against Trump’s administration. Trump would be better off if he should prove wrong about all this.)
Fred Ryan considers Trump’s dangerous message to tyrants: Flash money and get away with murder:
In a bizarre, inaccurate and rambling statement — one offering a good reminder why Twitter has character limits — President Trump whitewashed the Saudi government’s brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In the process, the president maligned a good and innocent man, tarring Khashoggi as an “enemy of the state” — a label the Saudis themselves have not used publicly — while proclaiming to the world that Trump’s relationship with Saudi Arabia’s 33-year-old crown prince was too important to risk over the murder of a journalist. Whatever objections people may have to our turning a blind eye to Khashoggi’s assassination, the president argued, they do not outweigh the (grossly inflated) revenue we can expect from U.S.-Saudi arms deals.
Annie Correal reports Why Big Law Is Taking On Trump Over Immigration:
Big Law — a nexus of power where partners are often plucked for top government posts — has emerged as a fierce, and perhaps unexpected, antagonist to President Trump’s immigration agenda. While pro bono work is nothing new, over the past two years, major law firms have become more vocal and visible in pushing back against the administration’s policies.