The Wisconsin Supreme Court race between Democrat-backed Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz and Republican-backed former state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly could end a decade of Republican dominance in one of the nation’s most pivotal swing states.
The current conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is 4–3, but the retirement of conservative Justice Patience Roggensack has opened the door for a change in ideologicial majority of the court for at least the next two years.
The outcome of the race, which is believed to be the most expensive state judicial race ever, could also prove decisive in the fight over the future of abortion laws in the state….