Rewind: Your Week in Review for April 26

On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Wisconsin, the state party chairs’ outlook for 2024, renewed calls to close Green Bay Correctional Institution, Joint Finance Committee Republicans blocking an Evers administration plan to use opioid settlement funds and more.

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Katsma not seeking reelection

Katsma, who turned 66 on Tuesday, worked 34 years at a community bank before his election to the Assembly in 2014. He was a prominent voice in the GOP push to cut taxes while serving on the Joint Finance Committee, where he served as vice-chair this session.

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John Torinus: Wisconsin Republicans soft on Putin

Mike Gallagher left Congress Saturday as a traditional Republican after his pivotal vote to support Ukraine against Vladimir Putin. He was a hawk during his eight years in Washington, in contrast to the rest of the Wisconsin GOP delegation that has gone soft on Putin.

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Dave Cieslewicz: The spring of reason

The hard-right Freedom Caucus may have finally been put in its place and SCOTUS might reject an extreme state anti-abortion law while unrealistic hard-left ideas about how to fight crime are being ended in places that once embraced them, DEI may be improved through a needed pushback, and even the very heart of hard-left media may be undergoing a change back toward fairness. It’s springtime for moderation.

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Parties file competing briefs in state Supreme Court absentee ballot drop box lawsuit

GOP lawmakers are arguing overturning a 2022 state Supreme Court ruling barring the use of absentee ballot drop boxes would make a “mockery” of the principle calling for justices to follow past precedent. But the state Elections Commission, represented by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, argued that while the doctrine of stare decisis is “fundamental to the rule of law,” adding the 2022 court decision was unsound and should be overturned.

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Rewind: Your Week in Review for April 26

On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Wisconsin, the state party chairs’ outlook for 2024, renewed calls to close Green Bay Correctional Institution, Joint Finance Committee Republicans blocking an Evers administration plan to use opioid settlement funds and more.

Read More »

Katsma not seeking reelection

Katsma, who turned 66 on Tuesday, worked 34 years at a community bank before his election to the Assembly in 2014. He was a prominent voice in the GOP push to cut taxes while serving on the Joint Finance Committee, where he served as vice-chair this session.

Read More »

John Torinus: Wisconsin Republicans soft on Putin

Mike Gallagher left Congress Saturday as a traditional Republican after his pivotal vote to support Ukraine against Vladimir Putin. He was a hawk during his eight years in Washington, in contrast to the rest of the Wisconsin GOP delegation that has gone soft on Putin.

Read More »

Dave Cieslewicz: The spring of reason

The hard-right Freedom Caucus may have finally been put in its place and SCOTUS might reject an extreme state anti-abortion law while unrealistic hard-left ideas about how to fight crime are being ended in places that once embraced them, DEI may be improved through a needed pushback, and even the very heart of hard-left media may be undergoing a change back toward fairness. It’s springtime for moderation.

Read More »

Parties file competing briefs in state Supreme Court absentee ballot drop box lawsuit

GOP lawmakers are arguing overturning a 2022 state Supreme Court ruling barring the use of absentee ballot drop boxes would make a “mockery” of the principle calling for justices to follow past precedent. But the state Elections Commission, represented by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, argued that while the doctrine of stare decisis is “fundamental to the rule of law,” adding the 2022 court decision was unsound and should be overturned.

Read More »