Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 61. Sunrise is 5:30 AM and sunset 8:11 PM, for 14h 40m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 11.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 493, in a shocking breach of table manners, Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.
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Shawn Johnson reports Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Proposal To Change Redistricting Rules:
Justices on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court have rejected an effort by conservatives to change the rules for the next round of redistricting, denying a petition that would have required all redistricting lawsuits to run through them.
States redraw their political boundaries every decade after the U.S. Census to make sure districts are roughly equal in population. The high-stakes process carries huge political implications and inevitably leads to lawsuits.
That’s all but certain to happen this year, with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers unlikely to agree on a new political map for the next decade.
A petition by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty would have required any redistricting lawsuit to be handled as an “original action” before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, meaning it would bypass lower courts. The governor and Legislature could present their own redistricting plans and outside groups could also intervene.
While justices rejected the proposal, they did not rule out the possibility of hearing a redistricting case.
“Our decision in this rule matter should not be deemed predictive of this court’s response to a petition for review asking this court to review a lower court’s ruling on a redistricting challenge or a request that we assume original jurisdiction over a future redistricting case or controversy,” wrote the court. “It remains well-settled that redistricting challenges often merit this court’s exercise of its original jurisdiction.”
Helen Sullivan reports US Target stores to stop selling Pokémon cards after rising value prompts threats to staff:
US retail giant Target will stop selling Poke?mon playing cards out of an “abundance of caution” for its staff and other shoppers. The re-sale value of the cards has increased dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic, prompting chaos and threats to staff. Target will also stop selling MLB, NFL and NBA sports playing cards.
The decision comes after man pulled a gun during a fight over trading cards in a Target parking lot in Brookfield, Wisconsin on 7 May. Police said the 35-year-old man produced the gun when he was assaulted by four men aged 23-35 as he left the store, ABC reported.
A shopper who was at the Target during the parking lot incident told Fox news at the time: “It’s just kind of sad for the kids. It just sounds kind of ridiculous that adults got into a fight in the parking lot about trading cards.”
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Michael Gerson writes Meet Kevin McCarthy, political hollow man:
Instead of dealing with reality, McCarthy mouths partisan pablum that the actions of his own party have rendered ridiculous. “Democrats,” he says, “are destroying this nation” — when only the GOP is actively undermining the U.S. system of government. Democrats are responsible for “the greatest expansion of government” — when Trump in power spent money like a drunken socialist. The damage done by Democrats, insists McCarthy, will be irreversible — when it is Republicans who seek to make Trump’s malignant hold on the country permanent.