April 5, 2022
8:13 am
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said Monday that judges are not deciding cases to impose a "policy result," but are making their best effort to determine what the law and the Constitution require.
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November 30, 2021
4:00 pm
Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run elections in the state after President Joe Biden narrowly won last year's presidential race, making the political battleground the latest front in the national push by the GOP to exert more control over elections.
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August 23, 2021
8:43 am
The Rochester Republican who has ordered an investigation into the 2020 Wisconsin election in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump, said he spent the day with the former president.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos the said in a statement Saturday he is going to be keeping Trump "updated on our investigation," the Journal Times reported.
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July 20, 2021
9:43 am
A Wisconsin man who cast two absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election has been charged with four felonies, making him the second person in the battleground state to face charges stemming from the election.
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June 14, 2021
9:42 am
With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue — whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions.
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June 9, 2021
10:03 am
The Wisconsin Senate plans to approve bills Wednesday making it more difficult to vote absentee in the state, measures that have drawn bipartisan opposition and are almost certain to be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
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May 24, 2021
2:27 pm
Municipal clerks have referred nearly 30 people to prosecutors for voting illegally in the presidential election out of 3.3 million votes cast, according to data from the Wisconsin Elections Commission, undermining former President Donald Trump's claims that rampant voter fraud cost him the state.
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May 5, 2021
8:28 am
Since the day after the deadly Jan. 6 riots on the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump's social media accounts have been silent — muzzled for inciting violence using the platforms as online megaphones.
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April 14, 2021
3:05 pm
Republicans who control the Wisconsin Senate moved on Wednesday to change state elections based largely on false claims that the November election was tainted, passing bills that would make interfering with election observers a crime and barring polling officials from accepting private grants to aid with administration.
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February 22, 2021
12:17 pm
The Supreme Court on Monday formally rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had divided the justices just before the election.
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February 11, 2021
1:06 pm
The U.S. attorneys for Wisconsin’s Eastern and Western District are resigning from their positions as the districts’ chief law enforcement officers. Matthew Krueger, who serves the Eastern District, and Scott Blader, who serves the Western District, announced their resignations on ...
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February 3, 2021
11:52 am
The number of voters identified as possibly having moved in Wisconsin decreased by two-thirds before the November presidential election, and none of the people still on the list cast ballots in 2020, the state Elections Commission reported Wednesday.
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January 15, 2021
1:44 pm
President-elect Joe Biden has introduced a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to end "a crisis of deep human suffering" by speeding up vaccination and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic's prolonged economic fallout.
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January 7, 2021
8:58 am
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two Wisconsin Republicans objected to certifying Joe Biden’s victories in a pair of states before his win was confirmed in a meeting of Congress that was interrupted by the storming of ...
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January 7, 2021
8:34 am
President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an "orderly transition on January 20th" after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
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January 6, 2021
9:59 am
Wisconsin's Republican congressional delegation is split over whether to confirm the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden, with at least two planning to object Wednesday and one saying such a decision would go down a "dangerous path."
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January 5, 2021
5:05 pm
The attorney Cleta Mitchell has resigned from Foley & Lardner after coming under fire for participating in a phone call in which President Donald Trump pressured Georgia's secretary of state to "find" votes in his favor.
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January 4, 2021
1:46 pm
The Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner said it's aware of and "concerned by" a Washington, D.C. partner's participation in a phone call President Donald Trump made to pressure Georgia's elections chief into finding more votes for him.
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December 30, 2020
11:10 am
President Donald Trump's push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks was all but dead Wednesday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed an alternative approach of loading up the bill with other White House priorities that appeared destined to fail.
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December 28, 2020
11:13 am
Shelving his objections, President Donald Trump has signed a $2 trillion-plus COVID-19 and annual federal spending package providing relief for millions of Americans, even as Congress returns to confront the White House on remaining priorities in a rare end-of-session showdown.
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December 23, 2020
11:37 am
The presidential recount in Wisconsin's Milwaukee County came in slightly under budget, at nearly $1.7 million, according to data released Wednesday.
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December 22, 2020
10:40 am
One of two Wisconsin counties that conducted recounts of their presidential votes spent nearly $730,000 on the attempt.
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December 21, 2020
9:18 am
After months of Washington gridlock, Congress is moving to act on a $900 billion pandemic-relief legislation, finally delivering long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
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December 18, 2020
10:02 am
The Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump's plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives.
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December 10, 2020
9:48 am
President Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Thursday, as hearings in federal and state lawsuits seek to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner.
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December 8, 2020
11:13 am
President Donald Trump and his allies say their lawsuits aimed at subverting the 2020 election and reversing his loss to Joe Biden would be substantiated, if only judges were allowed to hear the cases.
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December 7, 2020
10:56 am
A judge hearing President Donald Trump's federal lawsuit seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin said Friday that the president's request to "remand" the case to the GOP-controlled Legislature to pick new electors was "bizarre."
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December 4, 2020
9:38 am
For a man obsessed with winning, President Donald Trump is losing a lot.
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December 2, 2020
11:54 am
President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn Wisconsin's election results by tossing ballots only from the state's two most heavily Democratic counties is an "assault on democracy," attorneys for Gov. Tony Evers said in filings with the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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December 1, 2020
2:19 pm
Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
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