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In 1853, a separate Wisconsin Supreme Court was created with all members elected state-wide. Initially the court was three members; it grew to five justices in 1878, and to its current size of seven seats in 1907.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the highest and final court of appeals in the state judicial system of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In addition to hearing appeals of lower Wisconsin court decisions, the Wisconsin Supreme Court also has the option to take original jurisdiction of cases, and serves as a regulator and administrator of judicial ...
MADISON – The new liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday questioned its conservative members' past decision to bar Wisconsin clerks from using absentee ballot drop boxes in a ...
Annette Kingsland Ziegler (born March 6, 1964) is an American jurist serving as chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since May 2021. She has been a member of the court since 2007, and is generally regarded as part of its conservative wing. Ziegler served as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Washington County from 1997 to 2007.
The state Supreme Court came within one vote of overturning President Joe Biden's win in 2020, with a conservative swing justice siding with the then-minority liberal justices to reject Donald ...
Justice Brian Hagedorn, a conservative member of the court known to sometimes align with the liberal majority, also cast doubt on the Legislature's argument Wisconsin's Supreme Court HJustice ...
The 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Milwaukee County circuit judge Janet Protasiewicz defeated former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Daniel Kelly, effectively flipping the ideological balance of the court from a conservative to liberal majority.
The longest-serving current Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and member of its liberal majority announced Thursday that she will not seek another term, setting up a high-stakes fight for control of ...