U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin says she’s ready to hear the case against President Trump. The Senate trial begins on Tuesday. Baldwin, on WISN’s “UpFront” Sunday program, said Democrats want to hear from four witnesses, including White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

“If you think of a trial, you think of witnesses and evidence and documents,” Baldwin said.

In the the most recent Marquette Poll, a narrow majority of respondents did not want the president removed from office. “This isn’t a matter of polling,” Baldwin said. “We just took an oath, to do impartial justice on a trial that has yet to have its arguments presented.”

Baldwin said she’s committed to being fair and impartial, but would like to hear the President present his side of the case. Wisconsin’s other U.S. Senator, Republican Ron Johnson, has said there are no grounds for removing the president from office.

Also over the weekend, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner predicted the needed two-thirds of Senators will not vote to remove President Trump from office. During a visit to the district Sunday afternoon, the veteran congressman said impeachment shouldn’t be used just because people don’t like the results of the 2016 election. Sensenbrenner is the former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

The state Assembly on Wednesday failed to to override a veto by Governor Tony Evers. Evers in November vetoed a bill that would have reduced the number of required training hours to become a Certified Nursing Assistant. Speaker Robin Vos claimed Minority Leader Gorden Hintz threatened Democrats to sustain Evers’ veto, with cuts to their staffs.

“He can’t take your staff away,” Vos said. “The only person who can take your staff away, is me.”

Republicans said the bill, initially passed last year with Democratic support, would alleviate the shortage of CNAs, particularly in rural areas. Hintz said Evers vetoed the measure believing more training is needed for CNAs, citing studies that have shown an increase in the number of training hours increases job satisfaction and retention. “A hundred and twenty hours should be considered a floor, not a ceiling.”

Three Democrats who voted for the bill last year did not vote for the override.

It was a contentious night in Milwaukee, for President Donald Trump’s Keep America Great rally. The president claimed that Milwaukee County is not cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“The sanctuary county of Milwaukee released an illegal alien criminal, with multiple charges of sexual assault of a child. Think of that, of children? He’s now at large, they’re searching all over.”

Trump took some time to tout low unemployment rates in Wisconsin, and gave some of that credit to a former political rival.

“So now the people of Wisconsin, are gonna say, let’s see, the state’s set a record, most successful it’s ever been. And by the way, that’s because we got a lot of help from a guy named Scott Walker.”

Former Governor Walker was not among a collection of Republicans who took the stage Tuesday night at UW Milwaukee’s Panther Arena.

Trump thanked former Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy for his support, but also took a dig at CNN, who recently hired Duffy.

“I think he’s okay, he gets his check, they refuse to put him on. He says good things about Trump, ‘We don’t want you on!’, that’s CNN.”

Early on in the rally, President Trump was interrupted twice by protesters. Both times the protesters were escorted out by security. Another protester holding a Bernie Sanders sign was also escorted out.

Governor Tony Evers WRN image

The Wisconsin Assembly will attempt to override a Tony Evers veto. The Democratic governor vetoed bipartisan legislation in November that was aimed at reducing the shortage of Certified Nursing Assistants.

Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke said members will attempt the override on Wednesday.

The legislation passed in May with the votes of three Democrats. It would have reduced the number of required training hours to become a CNA in Wisconsin to match the federal requirement, and brought the state in line with neighboring Minnesota, Iowa, and Michigan.

Milwaukee area Republican legislators on Monday unveiled new tougher on crime initiatives. Representative Joe Sanfelippo (R-New Berlin) said repeat offenders continue to plague communities. “If somebody makes a mistake, we should give them a second chance. But what we’re aiming at is the habitual offenders who repeat crime over and over again, yet the system doesn’t do anything to change it.”

During a press conference in West Allis, the lawmakers said they hope to pass some of the proposed legislation in the remaining weeks of the session.

According to FBI statistics, 10 Wisconsin cities saw a combined increase of 24% in violent crime between 2008 & 2017. Today, @RepSanfelippo & Legislative Republicans introduced the Tougher on Crime package, which is the start of a focus on ensuring our communities are safe. pic.twitter.com/1iyXdB6KRx

— Wisconsin Assembly GOP (@WIAssemblyGOP) January 13, 2020

Sanfelippo said Governor Tony Evers’ campaign pledge to reduce prison populations by fifty percent means neighborhoods will not be safe.

“In 2018 for the first year ever, there were more people arrested for crime in the city of New Berlin that live outside of New Berlin than ever before. And that is the trend that we’re seeing, for those of us who in the communities surrounding Milwaukee, is we’re seeing this crime come out.”

“What ‘tough on crime’ really means is ‘tough on taxpayers’ and ‘tough on communities,’” said Chris Ott, ACLU of Wisconsin executive director. “These proposals would double down on the harmful policies that have failed to make our communities safe, wasted taxpayer money, and pushed our corrections system to the breaking point.”

These ‘tougher on crime’ proposals would double down on the harmful policies that have failed to make our communities safe, wasted taxpayer money, and pushed our corrections system to the breaking point. #wileg #smartjustice https://t.co/tvSn4LVofC

— ACLU of Wisconsin (@ACLUofWisconsin) January 14, 2020

Among the nine proposals discussed Monday was one that would allow victims to testify via phone conference or through deposition if there’s a reasonable belief that they may have been intimidated or are at risk of not cooperating fully due to intimidation. Another bill would make any attempt to intimidate a victim of domestic abuse a Class G felony.

An early voting location in Madison. (WRN photo)

The latest development dropped Monday morning, in Wisconsin’s fast breaking voter roll purge case. The state’s 4th District Court of Appeals has issued a stay of Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy’s contempt order, directing the Wisconsin Elections Commission to remove the names of some 209,000 voters who may have moved.

The stay also put on hold fines imposed by Malloy, for each day the commission failed to comply. The appeals court granted the Department of Justice’s stay request just one day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to take over the appeal in the case.

READ: Court of Appeals stay 2019AP2397 – 011420

Donald Trump campaigns in Wisconsin in 2016 (WRN photo)

President Donald Trump is set to woo Wisconsin on Tuesday night. The President holds a “Make America Great Again” campaign rally at UW Milwaukee’s Panther Arena. Some people were already in line Monday afternoon, even though doors don’t open until 3:00 for the 7:00 event.

Wisconsin, which the president carried with a less than one percent margin in 2016, is crucial to his reelection. His rally is set to begin just an hour before six Democratic presidential candidates debate in Des Moines. The Iowa Caucuses are just over three weeks away.

Traffic in downtown Milwaukee is likely to be congested – the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks will host the New York Knicks at Fiserv Forum starting at 7:00 P-M. Protesters are planning to take to the streets for the Trump event.

Donald Trump campaigns in Wisconsin in 2016 (WRN photo)

Wisconsin cities are still holding the bag, from campaign events four years ago. President Donald Trump will hold a rally tomorrow night at UW Milwaukee’s Panther Arena, and more candidate visits are likely here.

Eau Claire and Green Bay still have thousands in unpaid bills for security and other expenses from 2016, from the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns.

Today I introduced The Recovery of Unsettled Municipal Payments Act with @RepStuckWI. Read my full statement here: pic.twitter.com/ZX0CrydVuQ

— Senator Jeff Smith (@sensmithwi) January 13, 2020

A pair of lawmakers from the Chippewa Valley want to prohibit campaigns with outstanding bills from receiving a permit for another event until all debts are paid. Democrats, Senator Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire) and Representative Jodi Emerson (D-Eau Claire) would also allow municipalities to charge in advance of campaign events.