Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 6:17 and sunset is 7:32, for 13 hours, 14 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 43.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1799, the entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
As she had not been fundraising for her reelection effort, and as she had not applied for a vacancy on the federal bench, it’s unsurprising that Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley declined to run for reelection. What she said about the race is more telling than her own role:
“I will not seek reelection to the Wisconsin Supreme Court because I believe the best path for me to rebuild the conservative movement and fight for liberty is not as a minority member of the Court,” she said in a statement.
See Scott Bauer, A conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice won’t run again, creating an open seat, Associated Press, August 29, 2025.
In her statement, Bradley simultaneously concedes that the judiciary is not her best option, that anyone backed by the WISGOP will be in the minority even if successful, and, incredibly, contends that the far-right populism she supports is a ‘fight for liberty.’ In this, Bradley is right twice and wrong once: she is without the judicial temperament the court requires, and anyone from the far-right who wins will be in the minority, but she’s simply mendacious to claim that it’s a battle for liberty she and far-right populism have in mind.
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