Walker, Ryan, Duffy to speak at GOP convention

Speaker Paul Ryan, Gov. Scott Walker, U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke are all scheduled to speak at the convention that begins Monday in Cleveland. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, a Wisconsin native, is also speaking.

Closing Arguments Expected In Wisconsin Voting Lawsuit

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Wisconsin Republicans still struggling with Trump

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks with reporters Tuesday, June 21, 2016, in Watertown, Wis. Walker says he thinks delegates to the Republican national convention should be able to vote their conscience, even if that means not supporting presumptive nominee Donald Trump.

Major GOP Super-PAC Donor Won’t Bankroll Trump

A hedge funder who has been one of the biggest sources of super-PAC cash for the GOP appears uninterested in helping Donald Trump. In June 2012, hedge fund manager Paul Singer cut a $1 million check to the organizers of the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

The ‘Never Trump’ movement has emerged from the ashes

It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Donald Trump - one that allowed the "Never Trump" movement to emerge from the ashes with some much-needed newfound energy. The presumptive Republican nominee prompted sharp criticism from members within his own party when he publicly argued that a US federal judge's Mexican heritage made him unfit to oversee fraud cases involving Trump University.

Why the GOP Convention Is Looking Like A Game Of Thrones Wedding

At The Resurgent, Erick Erickson has this bit of insight on the impact of Donald Trump's erratic, bizarre and out-of-control behavior: GOP delegates Republicans who thought Trump could be controlled and reasoned with are finally starting to see the Trump that those of us who are against him have seen. The creep factor is intensifying as more Howard Stern stories come out.

Capital City Sunday

Another company that has received millions of dollars in tax credits from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has since outsourced Wisconsin jobs overseas. MADISON -- Another company that has received millions of dollars in tax credits from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has since outsourced Wisconsin jobs overseas.

Defense expected to begin case in federal voting law trial

Attorneys for the state Department of Justice are expected to begin calling witnesses in a federal trial to defend a host of election law changes enacted by Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in recent years. Liberal groups challenging elements of Wisconsin's voter identification law and more than a dozen other voting-related law changes were expected to conclude their case on Tuesday, the seventh day of the trial in federal court in Madison.

Scott Walker moves forward with plan to drug test food stamp users

Wisconsin's plan was approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature more than two years ago, but it languished because it conflicts with federal rules prohibiting states from imposing additional eligibility criteria on Florida had a drug test requirement for food stamp recipients that a federal appeals court blocked in 2014, finding it violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches. Walker filed a federal lawsuit in 2015 seeking approval to test food stamp applicants, but it was rejected because then-President Barack Obama's administration had not yet formally rejected the state's request to do the testing.