As the race to determine whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court will retain its conservative majority heats up, it has become the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history, and the state GOP has filed an ethics complaint over alleged campaign finance violations.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz and former Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly are vying for a 10-year term as they seek to take the seat of a conservative justice who is retiring at the end of her term in July. The election, which will determine whether the court maintains its 4-3 conservative majority, is to be held on Apr. 4.
If liberals attain the majority on the court, it could repeal Wisconsin's 1849 abortion law, right-to-work legislation passed under former Gov. Scott Walker and school voucher programs and alter redistricting maps.
While the state Supreme Court election is nonpartisan, Protasiewicz is viewed as the liberal candidate, and Kelly as the conservative, with the former receiving millions of dollars from the Wisconsin Democratic Party and Republicans funding ads supporting Kelly.
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