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A spokesperson for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says an alleged threat that Dem state Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez made was found to “not be credible” and her Capitol access was inappropriately revoked.
State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez said she has been banned from the state Capitol because of a threat she was accused of making and has left the Assembly Dem caucus after months of conflict with other members.
That includes $113 million projected for Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race and $40.5 million for legislative and down-ballot campaigns with control of both houses of the state Legislature up for grabs.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley announced she will not seek reelection in 2026, saying “the best path for me to rebuild the conservative movement and fight for liberty is not as a minority member of the Court.”
Vice President JD Vance during a La Crosse visit touted tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill while launching a defense against Dem attacks over health care provisions.
The state GOP has concluded it needs more out-of-state donors and should play a bigger role in campaigns to help turn around a losing streak in off-year elections, according to the postmortem it did on the spring state Supreme Court race.
GOP lawmakers are moving to block the Evers administration’s efforts to implement nearly half of the proposed rules the guv wants to take effect without first going through JCRAR.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she’d like to see all states move to a nonpartisan redistricting process done only once a decade. But short of that or a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning partisan gerrymanders, blue states can’t “fight with one hand tied behind our back,” the Madison Democrat told reporters.
The Evers administration is pushing to have new rules put into place without first submitting them to JCRAR, citing a state Supreme Court ruling that nixed the committee’s power to indefinitely suspend proposed regulations.
She was one of five people candidates U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, and Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, forwarded to the White House in mid-July as options to replace Judge Diane Sykes, who will take senior status Oct. 1.
It is “unreasonable and absurd” for the Madison attorney to suggest the Elections Commission lacks the power to direct the city clerk to take specific actions after unlawfully failing to count 193 absentee ballots last fall, a commission lawyer argues.
Madison is questioning whether the Elections Commission has the power to force it to take additional steps to ensure absentee ballots are counted properly without requiring the same of other Wisconsin communities.
Elon Musk’s America PAC, which offered Wisconsin voters $100 if they registered their opposition to “judicial activists” through a website, spent more than $27 million on “petition incentives” during the first half of 2025, according to a new federal filing.
It is unclear what the full impact of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will have on Wisconsin’s Medicaid program, partly because the federal government has yet to detail some of the implementation requirements, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
The local host committee for the 2024 Republican National Convention announced it has used leftover funds to make $5 million in charitable donations to Milwaukee nonprofits.
Dem Tony Evers announced today he won’t seek reelection next year, passing on the opportunity to become only the second governor in Wisconsin history to win at least three four-year terms.
A source close to Tony Evers tells WisPolitics the governor hasn’t yet made a final decision on seeking a third term, pushing back on reports that a retirement announcement is imminent.
Candidates and outside groups dropped nearly $115 million on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race this spring, more than doubling the previous national record set just two years earlier, a WisPolitics tally shows.
Wisconsin’s GOP members of Congress want the chance to urge the state Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the state’s House districts rather than moving forward with a novel approach to hear such lawsuits.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley, who told WisPolitics in April she planned to seek reelection next year, raised nothing for her campaign over the first half of 2025, according to a new filing.
A spokesperson for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says an alleged threat that Dem state Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez made was found to “not be credible” and her Capitol access was inappropriately revoked.
State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez said she has been banned from the state Capitol because of a threat she was accused of making and has left the Assembly Dem caucus after months of conflict with other members.
That includes $113 million projected for Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race and $40.5 million for legislative and down-ballot campaigns with control of both houses of the state Legislature up for grabs.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley announced she will not seek reelection in 2026, saying “the best path for me to rebuild the conservative movement and fight for liberty is not as a minority member of the Court.”
Vice President JD Vance during a La Crosse visit touted tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill while launching a defense against Dem attacks over health care provisions.
The state GOP has concluded it needs more out-of-state donors and should play a bigger role in campaigns to help turn around a losing streak in off-year elections, according to the postmortem it did on the spring state Supreme Court race.
GOP lawmakers are moving to block the Evers administration’s efforts to implement nearly half of the proposed rules the guv wants to take effect without first going through JCRAR.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she’d like to see all states move to a nonpartisan redistricting process done only once a decade. But short of that or a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning partisan gerrymanders, blue states can’t “fight with one hand tied behind our back,” the Madison Democrat told reporters.
The Evers administration is pushing to have new rules put into place without first submitting them to JCRAR, citing a state Supreme Court ruling that nixed the committee’s power to indefinitely suspend proposed regulations.
She was one of five people candidates U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, and Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, forwarded to the White House in mid-July as options to replace Judge Diane Sykes, who will take senior status Oct. 1.
It is “unreasonable and absurd” for the Madison attorney to suggest the Elections Commission lacks the power to direct the city clerk to take specific actions after unlawfully failing to count 193 absentee ballots last fall, a commission lawyer argues.
Madison is questioning whether the Elections Commission has the power to force it to take additional steps to ensure absentee ballots are counted properly without requiring the same of other Wisconsin communities.
Elon Musk’s America PAC, which offered Wisconsin voters $100 if they registered their opposition to “judicial activists” through a website, spent more than $27 million on “petition incentives” during the first half of 2025, according to a new federal filing.
It is unclear what the full impact of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will have on Wisconsin’s Medicaid program, partly because the federal government has yet to detail some of the implementation requirements, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
The local host committee for the 2024 Republican National Convention announced it has used leftover funds to make $5 million in charitable donations to Milwaukee nonprofits.
Dem Tony Evers announced today he won’t seek reelection next year, passing on the opportunity to become only the second governor in Wisconsin history to win at least three four-year terms.
A source close to Tony Evers tells WisPolitics the governor hasn’t yet made a final decision on seeking a third term, pushing back on reports that a retirement announcement is imminent.
Candidates and outside groups dropped nearly $115 million on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race this spring, more than doubling the previous national record set just two years earlier, a WisPolitics tally shows.
Wisconsin’s GOP members of Congress want the chance to urge the state Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the state’s House districts rather than moving forward with a novel approach to hear such lawsuits.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley, who told WisPolitics in April she planned to seek reelection next year, raised nothing for her campaign over the first half of 2025, according to a new filing.