Recent Articles from Derek Hawkins
Supplemental Security Income
Hess sought various benefits from the Social Security Administration, including supplemental security income, disability insurance benefits, and disabled adult child benefits.
Sanctions-Improper Interference
Mullen alleged that the defendants, a youth volleyball club and its owners, had fraudulently concealed prior allegations of sexual abuse.
Compassionate Release
Thomas has a lengthy history of frivolous collateral attacks on his 2009 conviction for bank robbery.
Wisconsin Democrats inch closer to overturning Republican-drawn legislative maps
Litigation continues in more than a dozen states over U.S. House and state legislative districts that were enacted after the 2020 census.
Former Terrorist owned Boeing aircraft successfully returned to the United States
U.S. Attorney Southern District Florida says it took 18 months of planning, coordination, and execution by the Feds.
10 guards, 900 inmates: Wisconsin prisons see dire results of ignored warnings
Guard after guard said their facilities were in dire crises.
Gallagher says he won’t run for reelection or against Baldwin for Congressional seat
Gallagher was one of the highest-profile Republicans considering a run for U.S. Senate this year against incumbent Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin.
WisDems unlikely to fully control state government
The Wisconsin Supreme Court appears set to enact more competitive legislative maps soon.
Wisconsin Elections Commission votes to allow clerks to accept partial addresses on absentee ballots
State law requires absentee ballots to be submitted with a witness’s signature and address on the outside envelope that contains the ballot.
Wisconsin Republicans urge state Supreme Court to reject redistricting report’s findings
The stakes are huge in battleground Wisconsin.
Faced with wave of hostile bills, transgender rights leaders are playing “a defense game”
Groups are merging as a new wave of anti-trans measures were already introduced this year.
Bayshore Mall parking structure collapse prompts new legislation
On Tuesday, Rep. Madison, Rep. Maxey, Rep. Donovan, and Sen. Larson introduced bipartisan legislation to require parking garages to have their structural integrity inspected every five years. “When the parking garage collapsed at Bayshore Mall last year, my first thought was how thankful I was that no one was hurt, especially after the 2010 Milwaukee […]
Legal News
- WisGOP convention spotlights abortion, higher education, immigration and national security
- NAACP: No consequences for UWM Pro-Palestinian protesters shows ‘bias’ and ‘privilege’
- New complaints filed against Northwestern over Kenosha football hazing scandal
- Justice Department submits proposed regulation to reschedule marijuana
- Reckless driving on Brown Deer Road results in fatal collision
- Lavinia Goodell 150th Anniversary commemoration to be held June 17
- WisGOP reacts to vice president’s Wisconsin visit
- Former prosecutor suspended for unwelcome contact during legal conference
- One Wisconsin Attorney’s misconduct ‘in a league of its own’
- Wisconsin election fraud charge issued from November 2022 general election
- Indigenous consultant accuses NHL’s Blackhawks of fraud, sexual harassment
- Man pleads guilty in theft of Arnold Palmer green jacket, other Masters memorabilia from Augusta
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