Oral arguments begin Thursday morning as Attorney General Jeff Landry's lawsuit against Joe Biden over the President's halting of lease sales gets underway.
It was enough that Wisconsin tried to make us believe that they were
the real “Mitten State”, but they re also still laying claim to the founding of the Republican Party.
For years, it was widely accepted that Jackson, Michigan was the birthplace of the Republican Party. But then Wisconsin got into the act.
So what do we know?
On March 20, 1854, a meeting was held in a one-room schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The meeting was organized in protest to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was opening up new territories that would accept slavery. It was at this meeting that the word “republican” was tagged onto a new political party, based on Thomas Jefferson s Democratic-Republican Party.
Las Cruces man John Thornton was arrested for plotting to kill President Biden. John Thornton has a famous actor Marty York who can be his doppelganger.