Politics

Under Kaul, Wisconsin’s Department of Justice has joined 40 multistate lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration in cases challenging freezes on federal funding, restrictions on healthcare access for transgender youth and an attempt to end birthright citizenship in the U.S.

A judge has found the state presented enough evidence against Jim Troupis, who served as Trump’s Wisconsin attorney in the 2020 election, and Mike Roman, a 2020 campaign aide, for the criminal trial to go forward.

A bill in the state Legislature would allow for community solar projects outside the control of utility companies and cooperatives, which are currently the only entities in Wisconsin allowed to provide solar power to paying customers.

Wisconsin’s version of C-SPAN officially came off the air on Monday, almost a month after the nonprofit public affairs network announced it was in desperate need of funding. 

State lawmakers are considering changing Wisconsin’s official definition of “bingo” at the request of an Illinois-based company operating free “Xtreme Bar Bingo” events at dozens of taverns.

Two state judicial panels held their first hearings Friday on lawsuits claiming Wisconsin’s eight U.S. House districts are unconstitutional, but they sent signals that the cases may not be resolved by the 2026 midterms.

A hearing in the felony case against a key figure in Wisconsin’s false electors scheme will proceed Monday — even as allies of President Donald Trump have ramped up pressure to stall the proceeding.

A trans Middleton person has used the nonbinary X on IDs to better reflect their identity and appearance. The Trump administration is now requiring people to use the gender they were originally assigned on their birth certificates on passports.

The report released Wednesday by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project found nearly two-thirds of states have cut staffing and more than half have reduced funding for environmental agencies since 2010. Wisconsin was among the top 10 states in the nation for these cuts.

A Republican-led state legislative committee approved new teaching requirements for Universities of Wisconsin faculty Thursday, a condition of the bipartisan state budget passed this summer.