Wisconsin Right Now

A group of radicals associated with Freedom Inc., an activist group funded by Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul, trashed police during a Fitchburg meeting this week as violent, racist rapists who are neo-fascist colonials. They offered no specifics, citing only various cases that did not occur in Fitchburg.  One Freedom Inc. speaker, Bianca Gomez, fixated on Police Chief Alfonso Morales' Latino heritage, saying, "We are sick and tired of you throwing self-hating people of color in our face and expecting us to be content with violence." https://youtu.be/NGoB8NWmacw Mai Yang, of Freedom Inc., said that police "kill" and "rape us" and "have no regards to human life." "Fighting to survive a system of oppression is not a crime," she said. "The police harassing and assaulting people should be a crime. No cop city." Talk show host Dan O'Donnell reported on the meeting, but the other media outlets th...

Wisconsin’s assembly speaker is not calling his proposal for medical marijuana dead, but he says it’s not going to happen this year. Speaker Robin Vos told reporters Thursday there are too many different views of marijuana to find a consensus on a strict-medical only plan. “I think we have now seen, unfortunately, people who from the very beginning have said that they have concerns that this will lead to widespread recreational marijuana and many of my colleagues on the other side continue to say that that is their goal which of course that's their right,” Vos said. Vos’ plan would create five state-owned marijuana dispensaries that would sell non-smoking marijuana to people with 15 specific health conditions. Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate, specifically, don’t like the idea of state-owned pot shops. “I still think we have the votes in the Assembly to pass it,” Vos added. “I've not had anybody come to me who was a supporter and say they have changed their posit...

The Fani Willis and Nathan Wade testimony today was crazy. You had the spectacle of the Fulton Co. DA, who is prosecuting President Donald Trump, storming into the courtroom and demanding to testify, against the objection of her attorney. We learned she prefers Grey Goose, whereas her lover-appointee Wade prefers wine. They went on a cruise with his mom. She thinks one of the Trump case defense attorneys is a liar. She basically said Wade is a misogynist who thinks the only thing a woman could do for him is make a sandwich. She doesn't want to "emasculate a black man." They disagree when they broke up because he's a "man" so he probably dates it to when they last had sex whereas she dates it to having a hard conversation and her independent streak. Her 50th birthday was depressing. She can't answer a simple yes/no answer without belligerently trying to control the proceeding. Yes, it was that crazy. The judge let Willis dominate, hector, sidetrack...

  Former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial date, in a case involving porn actress Stormy Daniels, will be March 25. A New York judge rejected a request to dismiss the case from Trump. He faces charges in multiple states while commanding the lead for the Republican nomination in the presidential race. His lawyers, appearing before Judge Juan Manuel Merchan, said the case will interfere with his campaign to return to the White House. Trump has three other prosecutions unresolved, one of which involved a district attorney under heavy scrutiny in Georgia on Thursday. Trump’s defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, said the president should not be spending the next two months in preparation for a trial when he should be on the campaign trail. Trump, after the decision, said he would be in court during the day and “campaigning during the night.” It echoes previous statements he has made. This New York case , with a prosecution led by District Attorney Alvin Bragg, was the...

  A former friend of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testified Thursday that Willis' romantic relationship with a special prosecutor started years before Willis hired him to lead the election interference case against Donald Trump. Robin Bryant-Yeartie, a friend since college and former Fulton County District Attorney's Office employee, said that Willis began a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade in 2019 shortly after they met at a judicial conference. Wade, who took the stand after Bryant-Yeartie, said the relationship with Willis started in March 2022, after he had been hired in November 2021. The conflicting testimony during a contentious legal hearing Thursday comes as Judge Scott McAfee looks to determine if Willis should be removed from the case. In August 2023, a Fulton County grand jury indicted Trump and 18 others, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former state Republican Party Chair David Shafer, on charges they tried to...

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says the legislature has done what the Wisconsin Supreme Court suggested and passed new maps. Now, he says it’s time for the court fight over redistricting to stop. Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly and Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday approved Democrat Gov. Tony Evers’ preferred maps. The vote is part of a strategy to head off maps that do even more damage to Republicans in the state from the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told reporters that the strategy is aimed not just at getting the least-worst maps for Republicans but also aimed at getting on with the 2024 elections and avoiding a multi-million-dollar court battle. “To actually be and we begin the campaign talking about ideas and why our side is better for Wisconsin, I think that is a better answer than drawn out court battles and going through millions of dollars of taxpayer expense when there's really no need to do so,” Vos said. The legislature sen...

  Special counsel Jack Smith asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject former President Donald Trump's request to delay his Washington D.C. case on charges of election interference. On Monday, Trump filed an emergency motion with the nation's highest court to pause an appeals court ruling that rejected his claims of presidential immunity. Smith told the high court there was no reason for a stay in the case. Smith wants the Supreme Court to allow Trump's election interference case to move ahead. "Delay in the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrate the public interest in a speedy and fair verdict – a compelling interest in every criminal case and one that has unique national importance here, as it involves federal criminal charges against a former President for alleged criminal efforts to overturn the results of the Presidential election, including through the use of official power," Smith's team wrote. Trump's defense team sa...