Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 87. Sunrise is 5:53 and sunset is 8:07, for 14 hours, 15 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 96.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Arts Commission meets at 5 PM.
On this day in 1942, the Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the Pacific War with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
In June, without explanation, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a challenge to this state’s congressional district boundaries. In July, plaintiffs in two separate cases (Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy on 7.8.25 and Bothfeld, et al. (II) on 7.25.25) came forward with new challenges to those maps. With redistricting a focus of Republicans’ machinations to maintain control of Congress, center-left plaintiffs favoring Wisconsin redistricting are seeking a three-judge panel to hear their new challenges:
They’re asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which has declined to hear other redistricting lawsuits this year, to appoint a three-judge panel to decide whether the state’s congressional districts initially drawn 14 years ago are unconstitutional.
The process could potentially open a door to two lawsuits filed in Dane County Circuit Court aimed at overturning Wisconsin’s congressional map, which has helped Republicans win six of the state’s eight House districts.Any decision issued by the judicial panel could only be appealed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
See Rich Kremer, In push for new Wisconsin congressional map, liberal firms invoke process created by GOP (‘In 2011, Republicans called for 3-judge panels to hear redistricting lawsuits. Liberal law firms want to use the panels to strike down Republican-drawn congressional districts’), Wisconsin Public Radio, August 7, 2025.
The earlier filings that Wisconsin’s high court dismissed in June were filed directly with that court; these actions filed in July have both different claims and a different point of origin.
The complaints from July are embedded below:
Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, No. 2025CV002252 (Wis. Cir. Ct. Dane Cnty. July 8, 2025).
Elizabeth Bothfeld, et al. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, No. 2025CV002432 (Wis. Cir. Ct. Dane Cnty. July 21, 2025).
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts again: