Republicans lost big in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election Tuesday night, betting badly that backing an 1849 abortion ban in a general election with huge policy stakes would net them a win.
Instead, a liberal judge who has a history of being soft on crime bulldozed her way into a technically nonpartisan seat on the state's highest court by openly vowing to protect a woman's right to choose.Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz defeated conservative candidate former Justice Daniel Kelly in a race that was framed as the most important of the 2023 election cycle.
It also signals to Democrats that the trend seen during the 2022 midterm elections, in which pro-abortion rights took center stage, has only strengthened. "Abortion is a bad issue for them to attack Democrats on," he said. "The abortion issue is just killing the Republican Party, and Wisconsin is a classic example of it. And they just refuse to learn from it."
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