A state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin could become the most important election of 2023, with voters’ decision dictating whether the state’s highest court leans liberal or conservative ahead of several key rulings.
From abortion rights to redistricting, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to consider deeply divisive issues once its newest member joins the bench.
Burden said the state’s high court has played such an outsize role in policymaking because Wisconsin has remained under divided government for years, with a Democratic governor and a Republican-controlled legislature. On the left, Dane County Judge Everett Mitchell and Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz hope to land a spot on the bench to serve as a decisive vote against an abortion ban, a Republican-backed congressional map, and a host of other issues likely to come before the court.
State Supreme Court judges have to win elections to serve in 38 states, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Some of the races are partisan, while some, like Wisconsin’s, are not. A legal battle over Wisconsin’s abortion law has drawn even more attention to who will fill the state Supreme Court seat.
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