Susan Crawford just won the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, what is this signal a new era for the state’s legal system, or is it just another political upset?
Susan Crawford just won the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, what is this signal a new era for the state’s legal system, or is it just another political upset?
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No, she’s a liberal judge replacing another liberal judge who retired, the balance is the same as it was before. If Schimel won, it would have swung the court 4-3 the other way.
Janet Proton Pack or whatever was the real swing, in 2023, where she replaced a conservative judge.
The real test will be next year, a conservative, Rebecca Bradley is up for reelection. Maybe the court will swing 5-2 then.
Judge Crawford will be a fair and impartial judge, which is what most people want and that’s why they elected her. Republicans and Nazis don’t want to have a fair judge, which is why they opposed her.
It really isn’t an upset. This was largely expected to happen, even by most conservatives. These types of elections have a much higher proportion of high-propensity voters, who are skewing much more Democratic than they did before Trump.
It also isn’t a new era because the court already had more liberals/Democrats than conservatives/Republicans. Enshrining voter ID into the state constitution while voting for a Democrat Supreme Court judge is curious though, especially since Wisconsin has one of the strictest voter ID laws in the country.
It means their freedoms won’t get gutted by antidemocratic heritage foundation scum.