Ginni Thomas pressured Wisconsin legislators and millions of birds are flying south each night

Ginni Thomas, spouse of Justice Clarence Thomas, pressured Wisconsin lawmakers to change 2020 election result

• In the days following former President Donald Trump's loss in 2020, at least two Wisconsin lawmakers received an email from longtime conservative activist and wife to a U.S. Supreme Court justice Ginni Thomas urging the legislators to change the outcome of Wisconsin's presidential election. Thomas, using an email program that allowed her to communicate with lawmakers on a mass scale, sent messages to Senate Elections Committee chairwoman Kathy Bernier and state Rep. Gary Tauchen, R-Bonduel, on Nov. 9, 2020, asking both to "take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen for our state," according to emails obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel under the state's public records law.

• Bernier told the Journal Sentinel it's possible Thomas sent emails to all Wisconsin lawmakers but she and Tauchen were the only ones to keep them. State law allows legislators to delete any email that has not yet been requested by the public.

• "The wife of a Supreme Court justice and pusher of the big lie pleading w/ Republicans to overturn the 2020 election is a bigger deal than anyone is willing to say out loud," Democratic Sen. Kelda Roys of Madison, a member of the Senate's elections committee, said in a tweet Thursday.

Paul Smith: What's that in the sky after dark? 48.4 million birds migrated across Wisconsin overnight Tuesday. Radar helps reveal the facts.

• Tuesday night was the biggest movement of birds in the 2022 fall migration, according to BirdCast, a radar-based project to estimate bird and other airborne animal movements. At its peak, 557 million birds were in flight at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday across the U.S. The total included 48.4 million across Wisconsin from 7:40 p.m. Tuesday to 6:20 a.m. Wednesday.

• Here in Milwaukee County, the project estimated 3 million birds migrated through overnight. The stiff west and northwest wind created good conditions statewide for bird movement. Radar in Marathon County recorded 9.4 million birds last night.

• The forecast for the Lower 48 states was for another good flight of 276 million Wednesday night, 221 million on Thursday and 259 million on Friday. If you haven't checked out the BirdCast project, visit birdcast.info to learn more. And do yourself a favor and get outdoors to look and listen for birds this migration season.

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