Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 28. Sunrise is 7:16, and sunset is 4:20, for 9 hours, 5 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 81.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1972, Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
First, an update to an earlier post (Imperfect Justice): Alex Jones keeps Infowars for now after judge rejects The Onion’s winning auction bid. Jones doesn’t deserve the site, but its next ownership is now unclear.
Second, it turns out (properly) that the results of a national election do not nullify Wisconsin’s criminal law:
Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year.
Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin, Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who advised the campaign, and Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020, all initially faced a single felony forgery charge in Wisconsin. Those charges were filed in June.
But on Tuesday, two days before the three are scheduled for their initial court appearances, the Wisconsin Department of Justice filed 10 additional felony charges against each of them. The charges are for using forgery in an attempt to defraud each of the 10 Republican electors who cast their ballots for Trump that year.
See Scott Bauer, Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors, Associated Press, December 10, 2024.
Aerial video captures Franklin Fire impacting thousands in Malibu: