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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 conduct and the practice of law in Wisconsin.
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.
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 ...
The court must first agree to take the case, which seems all but certain given the 4-3 liberal majority, and then rule on whether the current maps are constitutional.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court's new liberal majority is likely to face cases on abortion and other partisan issues as tension with conservatives grows.
In a major victory for abortion rights advocates, the result turns a court with a former 4-3 conservative majority to liberal control after 15 years, likely affecting a number of issues that have ...
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a shadow docket opinion, reversed the Wisconsin Supreme Court on their legislative maps, finding that the state supreme court had adopted a defective process in their redistricting efforts. A short time later, Hagedorn rejoined the conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court to select the Republican maps. [26]