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With mid-terms weeks away, Republicans hammer away on crime
News analysis The mid-terms are now less than a month away, and it has come down to a tale of two issues: abortion versus crime.
U.S. Supreme Court set to rule on federal authority over navigable waters
In its first case in the new term, the U.S Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this month in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a blockbuster case that could help reshape the powers of the administrative state in general and determine specifically the extent of the federal government’s jurisdiction …
Abortion case tests the notion of implied repeal
Back in June, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Gov. Tony Evers and Wisconsin attorney general Josh Kaul announced a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban, saying more recent statutes governing abortion effectively nullified it, but last week Republicans argued for the lawsuit’s dismissal, saying …
Study suggests Paxlovid is effective for high risk Covid patients
A new paper from Harvard researchers has found that the anti-viral Pfizer drug Paxlovid is effective in reducing severe outcomes, including death, in high-risk Covid patients, and the data in the cohort study also suggests the drug should be administered to even vaccinated patients.
In U.S. Senate race, Johnson tries to keep the focus on Biden
In a campaign that could be critical to which party controls the U.S. Senate next year, incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is trying to keep voters focused on Joe Biden’s policies, particularly the economy and inflation, while his opponents are zeroing in on abortion and, to counter the GOP’s …
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WILL calls for Legislature to act on open records
After the state Supreme Court recently overturned decades of precedent in open records case law, ruling that a denied records requester must prevail in a court ruling to win any attorneys’ fees and court costs, a conservative legal group is calling upon the state Legislature to pass legislation to overturn …
Johnson catches CDC in major contradiction over Covid vaccine adverse events
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has fired off yet another letter to Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), demanding clarity on whether the agency performed sufficient surveillance of Covid-19 vaccine adverse events, after seeing conflicting statements by CDC officials.
Wisconsin Supreme Court drop kicks drop boxes in state
In a decision proclaiming that the unlawful use of absentee drop boxes have weakened Wisconsinites’ faith that the 2020 election produced an outcome reflective of their will, the state Supreme Court has ruled that the boxes are illegal in the state and, barring a change in election law, can’t be …
Supreme Court clips Biden’s climate-change wings
Last week, on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision supporting Second Amendment rights, religious liberty, and the reversal of Roe v Wade, came yet another monumental court decision, this time siding with the state of West Virginia in a battle with the federal Environmental Protection Agency over carbon …
Supreme Court: Prehn can keep his NRB seat
On a 4-3 vote, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled last week that a member of the state’s Natural Resources Board whose term expired more than a year ago can keep serving until the state Senate approves a replacement.
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Grothman bill pushes back against Biden’s gender identity school funding policy
U.S. Reps. Glenn Grothman (R-Wisconsin 6) and Diana Harshbarger (R-Tennessee) — joined by Northwoods U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin 7) — have introduced legislation to prohibit the U.S. Department of Agriculture from withholding federal funds from schools that do not adopt the Biden administration’s views and policies about gender identity …
Fitzgerald, lawmakers express concerns about anti-trust review of Musk’s Twitter purchase
U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wisconsin 5) and four congressional colleagues are questioning the Federal Trade Commission about potential partisan motives in its announced anti-trust review of Elon Musk’s proposed purchase of Twitter.
Review: Pfizer, Moderna vaccines didn’t reduce all-cause mortality
A new Danish review in The Lancet conducted by Dr. Christine Stabell Benn of the University of Southern Denmark and colleagues shows that, in randomized clinical trials, mRNA Covid vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna didn’t reduce all-cause mortality among study participants, in contrast with adenovirus-vector vaccines by AstraZeneca and Johnson …
Republicans take aim at Biden’s disinformation czar
House Republicans, including Northwoods U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany of Minocqua, demanded this past week that the incoming director of President Joe Biden’s new Disinformation Governance Board turn over records related to the board’s creation, its mission and authorities, as well as records relating to any coordination with social media companies.
State is loaded with cash, study shows
A new report by the research firm Forward Analytics shows that Wisconsin is sitting on a large store of cash and, what’s more, the stash is growing. The April report, “Flush with Cash: Wisconsin’s Growing Financial Reserves,” revealed that the state’s financial reserves totaled $4.3 billion at the end of …
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