Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 62. Sunrise is 6:42 and sunset is 7:17 for 12 hours 35 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 87.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1974, farmers Yang Zhifa, his five brothers, and neighbor Wang Puzhi discover the Terracotta Army in Shaanxi province, China.
Alexander Shur reports that the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is pivotal for future election policy. That’s true:
Unlike the past two Wisconsin Supreme Court races, though, this contest won’t determine ideological control of the court. Liberals already hold a 4-3 majority, and the outcome will either preserve the liberal majority or expand it to 5-2 by replacing retiring conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley. As a result, the race has drawn significantly less attention and spending than the last two contests, which decided the court’s ideological balance.
Even so, the winning candidate in that person’s upcoming 10-year term is likely to weigh in on a range of voting battles currently playing out in lower courts. Those may include cases over whether voters with disabilities can cast electronic ballots, the legality of Wisconsin’s membership in the multistate Electronic Registration Information Center, a demand for the Wisconsin Elections Commission to audit the citizenship of registered voters, and whether voters can spoil a ballot that they’ve already returned and cast a new one.
Critically, the winning justice will also be a member of the court for the 2028 presidential election, when voting disputes often intensify and escalate to court challenges.
“There’s a lot of importance just because of the length of the term,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, who noted that the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the past 10 years has weighed in on absentee voting rules, the legality of postponing elections because of the pandemic and President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
See Alexander Shur, Wisconsin Supreme Court race pivotal for future election policy (‘The winning candidate could preside over cases ranging from noncitizen voting to 2028 presidential election disputes’), Wisconsin Watch, March 28, 2026.
The WISGOP — and it is the WISGOP that matters even in nonpartisan judicial races — suffers exhaustion. Same party leaders: too long, too dull, too old.
No one takes the boom out of Boomer like these men have.
Here’s a sharp-dressed Canadian gentleman with something to say:
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