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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 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was described as the most important election of the year. In 2020, allies of former president Donald Trump attempted to challenge the result of the U.S. general election in Wisconsin; the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the attempt by a one-vote margin. [ 30 ]
Two seats of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals were also up for election, but neither was contested. There were also various nonpartisan local and judicial offices on the ballot, including a county executive and mayoral election in Wisconsin's most populous city and county, Milwaukee. The 2024 Wisconsin spring primary was held on February 20, 2024 ...
The win for Ms Protasiewicz gives the court’s liberal wing majority control or the first time in roughly 15 years ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The Wisconsin Supreme Court played an ...
Liberal Janet Protasiewicz just won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But she could face impeachment attempts with a GOP supermajority in the state Senate.
(Reuters) - Wisconsin voters on Tuesday elected liberal Janet Protasiewicz to the state Supreme Court, flipping control to a liberal majority ahead of rulings on an abortion ban and other matters ...
Janet Claire Protasiewicz (/ ˌ p r oʊ t ə ˈ s eɪ w ɪ t s /; proh-tə-SAY-wits; born December 3, 1962) is an American attorney and jurist from Wisconsin who has served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since August 2023.
In a statement, the Schimel campaign said "leftist judges in Wisconsin and around the country are failing to enforce our laws," and called the Nov. 5 election "a repudiation of the left’s ...