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Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017. Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead. Photo is in the Public Domain.
Two days after a violent mob took over the U.S. Capitol, the nation’s top Democrats are calling for the removal of President
Donald Trump before his term expires and every Democratic member of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation is at least considering it.
All four of the Democrats in the state’s congressional delegation have called for Vice President
Gov. Evers sends letter to Vos, LeMahieu proposing compromise for COVID-19 relief bill
December 21, 2020 5:13 PM Site staff
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Morry Gash
MADISON, Wis. Gov. Tony Evers sent two bills to Republican lawmakers Monday asking to take action and address the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Evers showed disappointment due to a bill not being passed yet. He seeks to reach “a timely agreement on these pressing issues” by the end of the year.
“Wisconsinites are demanding and deserve the legislature to reconvene and pass legislation that addresses the continuing needs of our response to COVID-19,” Evers wrote in the letter. “I agree, and I hope at the very least this first compromise bill will be sent to my desk quickly and without delay, even if it means meeting during the next two weeks, and remain hopeful it will only be the first of several bills passed by the Legislatur
Wisconsin jurists who defied Trump get an earful
Callers from across the nation castigate state Supreme Court Justices Jill Karofsky and Rebecca Dallet
Jake Harper/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
In the days following her astringent questioning and subsequent vote against an effort by President Donald Trump to subvert the will of the electorate by tossing out hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin votes, state Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky has received a flurry of angry voicemail messages on her official court phone line.
âYou got a lot of guts,â one caller stated, as recorded in an MP3 file released Wednesday to
Explainer: Dueling Electors and the Upcoming Joint Session of Congress
Presidential candidates in the United States win elections by winning the most electoral votes.
The Electoral College system apportions a certain number of votes to each state. When voters in a state vote for a party’s candidate, they’re actually casting a vote for that party’s slate of electors, or people chosen to cast electoral votes.
Those electoral votes are counted by Congress. If a candidate gets 270 or more, they win the presidency.
Dueling Electors
In seven states on Dec. 14, a slate of Democratic electors chose Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Republican electors, even though Biden was certified as the winner in the states, also cast votes for President Donald Trump.