Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court race matters, and more about the April election
Voting is underway in the April election that will decide whether liberals or conservatives hold the Wisconsin Supreme Court majority and whether the state’s photo ID law will be written into the constitution.
There are plenty of local races, too, including school funding proposals. This election is likely to see high turnout, and the Supreme Court contest has already seen unprecedented rates of spending that will almost certainly make it the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history.
The race to fill the seat of a retiring justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is between Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford and Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel. The race is nominally nonpartisan, but in effect Crawford is running as a liberal, and Schimel, a Republican former attorney general, is running as a conservative.
Partisan and activist groups have pegged the Wisconsin Supreme Court race as one of the most consequential off-year elections.
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