Friday, June 19: ‘Substantial’ claim government jailed Sarsour for political speech, discovering Wisconsin’s early Black history, state Supreme Court rules against race-based grants to students, appeals court considers feds’ demand for state voter list
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Mr. Sarsour has presented a substantial claim of First Amendment retaliation.”
– U.S. District Judge James P. Hanlon, an appointee of President Donald Trump, in his order releasing Milwaukee Islamic Society President Salah Sarsour from ICE detention in Indiana
Salah Sarsour being released from immigration detention. (Photo courtesy of Yaseen Najeed)
Salah Sarsour, the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, arrested by immigration agents in late March, was released Thursday under an order by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge James P. Hanlon, an appointee of President Donald Trump, sided with Sarsour’s attorneys who charged that Sarsour’s arrest was based on his speech supporting Palestinian human rights. Isiah Holmes has the story.
Madison’s Black community more than a century ago was concentrated in a neighborhood near the Capitol, where business owners, church leaders and civil rights advocates built institutions that helped shape the city. Baylor Spears takes a walking tour with the Wisconsin Historical Society to learn about the earliest Black Madisonians.
The Trump administration’s U.S. Justice Department has no authority at all to demand Wisconsin voter records that it has sought in federal court, the Wisconsin Justice Department said in federal court papers filed Thursday. Erik Gunn reports on the ongoing case.
Wisconsin must stop awarding small-dollar grants to help deter students from dropping out of college under a program available only to specific racial and ethnic groups, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The Court’s liberal justices sharply critiqued a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that set the stage for the ruling, while acknowledging that its precedent required them to follow its contours. Erik Gunn reports.
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A group of about 12 Wisconsinites gathered on the corner of E. Dayton and N. Blount Street, near a white house that belongs to the Hill family early Thursday evening. (Photo by Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner)
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