In next month’s election, liberals could further expand their edge on the battleground-state court and put the majority out of reach for conservatives for years.
Three years ago, liberals won a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years, a major breakthrough in one of the nation’s most closely divided battleground states.
Next month, they’re aiming to further expand that edge.
The April 7 election between the Democratic-backed Chris Taylor and the Republican-backed Maria Lazar to fill a seat held by retiring conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley has flown under the radar nationally compared to last year’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race, in which Susan Crawford maintained the liberals’ majority. That contest ended up as the most expensive state judicial race in history after Elon Musk poured in millions of dollars.
But a victory by Taylor, who holds massive fundraising and ad spending advantages, would extend liberals’ winning streak in Wisconsin Supreme Court elections to four — and put conservatives out of reach of the majority for years to come.
I hope we can get that seat! Having a reasonable WI supreme court has been one of the few bright spots in politics lately. It’d be nice to have another seat’s worth of safety on that.
It should be noted that the last two judicial races weren’t even close. The liberal candidates absolutely trounced the conservative. The last one came just months after Trump “won” in Wisconsin in 2024. Yes, I am absolutely insinuating something with those quotation marks.
That was also an election that Elon threw so much money into that he temporarily decided he shouldn’t fund politics
