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Friday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with scattered afternoon rain or snow showers and a high of 42. Sunrise is 6:47 AM and sunset 7:13 PM for 12h 26m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 47% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1655, Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
Shawn Johnson reports Former Justice Gableman suggested decertifying 2020 presidential election. His own attorney says it would be ‘pointless’:
Attorney James Bopp has represented Gableman in a couple cases that challenged the former justice’s authority as the special counsel for the state Assembly’s investigation of the 2020 election, which President Joe Biden won. Bopp is well-known nationally as a longtime lawyer for conservative causes.
He was invited to testify Thursday before the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections alongside Catherine Engelbrecht, “True The Vote” founder and president. Bopp has served for years as the group’s lawyer. Like Gableman, Bopp has repeatedly cast doubt on the way the 2020 election was run.
But when asked Thursday whether he believed decertification should be an option, Bopp rejected the idea.
“It serves zero legal purpose, and in my opinion, useful purpose, to be talking about doing some, like, decertification that is pointless,” Bopp said.
Bopp argued that “recertification” would have been an option in Wisconsin prior to Jan. 6, 2021, the day when Congress met to count electoral votes and a group of former President Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol. That option, he argued, had since passed.
“It’s over,” Bopp said. “You can’t go back. There is no mechanism, no provision, no anything that would have any practical legal effect.”
To be honest, Gableman deserves more than mere residency in Village of Zero Legal Purpose. He has a fair claim to merit the mayoralty of that unfortunate community.
