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Wisconsin
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 40 stories to Wisconsin since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Wisconsin.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Wisconsin
10 storiesICE plans to pay up to $5 million to compile voter rolls and voting histories from all 50 states, after courts rejected DOJ's demands for the same data.
Party affiliation collectable on written order
Wisconsin GOP governor candidate Rep. Tom Tiffany escapes with 12 stitches after his campaign plane loses power, crash-lands in Lake Wausau and sinks.
Swam 100 to 150 feet to shallows
Planned Parenthood sues to strike Wisconsin's 24-hour abortion waiting period and physician-only rule as the state Supreme Court opens term with a 5-2 liberal majority.
Court struck 1849 ban last year
Maine and Wisconsin judges become seventh and eighth to reject DOJ voter roll demands, Trump-appointed judge says interpretation takes a sledgehammer to congressional balance.
DOJ 0-for-8 in voter roll suits
FBI tries to interview Milwaukee County elections director Michelle Hawley at her home as agency seeks information on county's 180,000 absentee ballots from 2020 election.
Wisconsin commission deputy also interviewed
Wisconsin judge orders state Department of Justice to release names, birth years, and work history of approximately 16,000 certified law enforcement officers.
Targets "wandering officers" who change agencies
ICE detains the president of Wisconsin's largest Islamic organization, a 32-year legal resident, over decades-old Israeli conviction from his teenage years.
DHS labels him "terrorist," supporters say political targeting
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.'s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach "break it and see."
21 states sued, summary judgment granted
Milwaukee judge resigns after jury convicts her of felony obstruction for helping defendant evade ICE agents in her courtroom.
Served since 2016, faces up to 5 years
Alfalfa sprout outbreak spreads to 55 people across 15 states as the grower FDA warned about unsanitary conditions in 2025 still refuses a recall.
Some patients have both pathogens simultaneously
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesTwenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
Milwaukee's city attorney defies a DOJ ultimatum, vowing to prosecute masked federal agents under the city's law enforcement identification ordinance.
Letter cites Maine and Houston killings
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
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