On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, the 2020 election probe being run by former Justice Michael Gableman, the vetting of Afghan
UW System interim President Tommy Thompson says a key Republican lawmaker is “making a big mistake” in seeking legal action against universities. JCRAR co-chair Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, said earlier this week he’ll ask legislative leadership to sue the System
Mayor Tom Barrett vowed to take Milwaukee values such as hard work, honesty and caring for others to the job as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg if confirmed. The White House on Wednesday announced its intentions to nominate Barrett, 67, to
A key Republican lawmaker says he’s seeking permission to sue the UW System after President Tommy Thompson vowed to reject a JCRAR request to submit COVID-19 policies as rules by Sept. 2. The committee’s Co-chair Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, said
Competing redistricting suits are before the courts as the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty asked the state Supreme Court to step in and several nonpartisan groups went to federal court. The actions follow a suit from a half-dozen
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan said what’s happening in Afghanistan is the result of failures 20 years ago, while Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher put the blame squarely on the Biden administration. Both Pocan, D-Town of Vermont, and Gallagher, R-Green Bay,
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and The Associated Press’ Scott Bauer discuss the latest developments in the U.S. Senate field, AG Josh Kaul’s effort to push Chair Fredrick Prehn off the DNR Board and redistricting.
The state Department of Justice announced no new criminal charges will be filed after an agency review of more than 30 sexual assault cases that had previously been investigated by the Wisconsin National Guard between 2009-2019. Still, the agency recommended
GOP lawmakers want a federal court to dismiss a “wildly premature” lawsuit filed by a half-dozen Dem voters asking a three-judge panel to set a deadline for the state to draw new political lines. That suit also asks the federal
Dem AG Josh Kaul has filed a lawsuit seeking to force Frederick Prehn from the Natural Resources Board after the Wausau dentist declined calls to step down more than three months after his six-year appointment ended. Prehn, the board chair,
GOP legislative leaders don’t just want the state Supreme Court to rule they had the authority to hire attorneys to represent them in anticipation of a redistricting suit even before one was filed. They also want “definitive, binding guidance” from
Almost a year after the shooting of Jacob Blake, the officer who shot Blake is back at work in the Kenosha Police Department, but has not returned to patrol duty. Officer Rusten Sheskey, who is white, was cleared in the
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58 Capitol reporter Emilee Fannon discuss U.S. Rep. Ron Kind’s decision to not seek reelection, Gov. Tony Ever’s veto of GOP election bills, GOP election investigations, rising COVID-19 hospitalizations and
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’d consider signing off on a subpoena if former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman decided he needed one for his 2020 election probe. Former President Trump is pressing Vos to support efforts by GOP Rep.
Wisconsin voters have net-positive views of the way President Biden and Gov. Tony Evers are doing their jobs even as they lack confidence in how government is working, a new Marquette University Law School poll finds. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Ron
