Former Attorney General Eric Holder will head to Wisconsin to campaign for progressive candidate Janet Protasiewicz in the state's high-stakes Supreme Court race, billed as one of the country's most consequential elections of the year.
The winner of the April 4 contest between Judge Protasiewicz and former Justice Dan Kelly, the conservative candidate in the race, will likely tip the state's highest court and deliver tiebreaking votes on abortion, partisan gerrymandering, and election law after conservative Justice Patience Roggensack retires later this year.
Today is the first day of early voting in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. It's going to be close, so don’t wait until April 4th. Make a plan to vote today and encourage your family and friends to do the same. Find your early vote location: https://t.co/Lo7Jj6piAN Wisconsin had been heralded for its stringent campaign finance laws that clamped down on conflicts of interest and demanded transparency, but that was undermined by a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that lifted laws on independent expenditures by corporations. In 2015, Wisconsin's GOP-led legislature eased the limit on personal donations to political parties. What resulted was a mad dash by corporations, special interest groups, and wealthy individuals to exert their influence on races.
State Democratic Chairman Ben Wikler told Bloomberg Government that the massive amounts of cash being funneled into the race is so"explosively high because the stakes are so monstrously gigantic."
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