Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 42. Sunrise is 6:24 and sunset is 7:29, for 13 hours, 5 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 83 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Tech Park Innovation Center Advisory Board meets at 8:30 AM, the Public Works Committee at 5 PM, and the Community Development Authority at 6 PM.
On this day in 1820, the Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
There are updates on the careers of influential two Wisconsinites.
Michael Gableman, former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and thereafter Speaker Robin Vos’s selection as a paid election conspiracy theorist, has struck a deal with the Office of Lawyer Regulation:
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who led a widely derided review of the 2020 presidential election, searching for evidence for baseless accusations of fraud, will have his law license suspended for three years, according to a stipulated agreement between him and the state Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR).
Law Forward, the progressive voting rights focused firm, filed a grievance against Gableman with the OLR in 2023. The OLR filed a complaint against Gableman in November that alleged, among other counts, that he had failed to “provide competent representation” and to “abstain from all offensive personality” and of violating attorney-client privilege.
The allegations against Gableman stemmed from his treatment of the mayors of Green Bay and Madison, whom he threatened with jail time during his review, false statements he made during testimony to legislative committees, violating the state’s open records laws, breaching his contract with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and, when OLR began investigating him, “making false statements” to the investigators in an affidavit.
As part of the stipulated agreement, Gableman admitted that “he cannot successfully defend against the allegations of misconduct … and agrees that the allegations of the complaint provide an adequate factual basis in the record.”
See Henry Redman, Gableman’s law license suspended for three years, Wisconsin Examiner, April 7, 2025.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will have to approve the agreement between the parties, as is likely. A three-year suspension is lenient; Gableman’s conduct merits permanent disbarment. Vos, regrettably, remains in office despite his own role in selecting (and tolerating too long) Gableman’s cascade of lies.
When one last heard from Justice Rebecca Bradley, she was bitterly complaining expressing mild disappointment with Judge Susan Crawford’s election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Bradley’s now announced that she will run again next year:
MADISON – Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley said this week she plans to seek another 10-year term in 2026, setting in motion another high-pitched battle for a seat on the state’s highest court.
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State appeals judge Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state lawmaker, told the Journal Sentinel on Saturday she is considering running for the seat.
Bradley, appointed to the court by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2015 and elected for a full 10-year term in 2016, announced just days after liberals secured control of the court until 2028.
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Bradley also has been floated as a contender to replace retiring federal judge Diane Sykes on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which would be a lifetime appointment.
She told Wispolitics she is focused on Wisconsin at the moment.
See Molly Beck, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley announces she’ll seek another 10-year term, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 5, 2025.
At the moment: unless something more secure comes along.
Philippine volcano erupts, shooting ash cloud kilometers into the sky: