Wisconsin voters head to the polls next week in the most expensive election for a state supreme court seat in U.S. history, an example of how state courts have become the target of large campaign-spending and increasing partisan pressures
Wisconsin voters head to the polls next week in the most expensive election for a state supreme court seat in U.S. history, a pointed example of how state courts have become the target of large campaign-spending and increasing partisan pressures..
If Judge Janet Protasiewicz, who currently serves on a lower court and is heavily backed by the Democratic Party, wins the 10-year term, it would give the seven-member court its first liberal majority in recent memory. That could provide left-leaning groups a better shot at challenging the state’s 174-year-old law banning most abortions and the state’s current electoral maps, which have given Republicans large majorities in both chambers of the state legislature.
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