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Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 66. Sunrise is 5:23 and sunset is 8:20, for 14 hours, 56 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 9.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1844, Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race now has two candidates, incumbent Rebecca Bradley and challenger Chris Taylor:
The next battle for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is shaping up, with liberal state Appeals Court Judge Chris Taylor announcing Tuesday that she will challenge conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley.
While the race won’t tip the balance of power on the state’s highest court like the last two Supreme Court contests, it could potentially grow liberals’ current majority.
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The announcements by Taylor and Bradley come after Wisconsin set yet another record for campaign spending on a judicial race. All told, more than $100 million went toward supporting the Crawford and Schimel campaigns according to WisPolitics, which is nearly double the previous record set in 2023.
Liberals currently hold a 4-3 majority on the court, a split that will remain unchanged after Crawford takes office Aug. 1. A Bradley victory next year would keep that 4-3 margin intact. Should she lose, it would give liberals a 5-2 edge on the court.
See Rich Kramer, Liberal Judge Chris Taylor enters 2026 race for Wisconsin Supreme Court (‘Taylor is the first candidate to formally challenge conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley’), Wisconsin Public Radio, May 20, 2025.
Norwegian man wakes up to find grounded cargo ship narrowly missed his home: