A Post-Mortem On Conservatives' Costly Loss In Wisconsin

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A Post-Mortem On Conservatives' Costly Loss In Wisconsin
M.D. Kittle


A day after a bruising defeat in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, Badger State conservatives were mired in the usual questions, second-guessing, what ifs and — in some corners — recriminations that come with big losses. And make no mistake, Tuesday’s loss was a big one for so many reasons.

Far-left Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeated conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel by 10 percentage points (55% to 45%). In historically high turnout for a spring election in which 2.3 million people voted, Crawford drew nearly 230,000 more votes than Schimel.

And for conservatives across the country, the price of losing the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history is immense. The left will control the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the foreseeable future. That means a long line of Wisconsin’s conservative reforms are now in peril, and the leftist court — as advertised — is very likely to preside over redrawn congressional maps to give Democrats a much better chance of taking back the House next year and hamstringing President Trump’s agenda. 

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https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/03/heres-a-post-mortem-on-conservatives-costly-loss-in-wisconsin/

[catfish1957]

I am pro life, but I understand our candidate in WI was one of those, no exception for abortion positions.

That's a tough sell in the moderate mid west.

[Free Vulcan]

I wasn't too optimistic on this one, Trump barely won WI himself.

It really shouldn't be an issue, but the court in a nakedly partisan move will redraw districts mid-decade after redrawing them a couple of times already, with vague smoke and moralistic poo-poohing about discrimination, and Roberts and SCOTUS will likely let them.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Well... can they just stack the court in WI like the Dems wanted to do to the USSC in 2022?