The race for control of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court could change the course of the entire country.
possible. Since then, they have never won fewer than sixty of the state’s ninety-nine Assembly seats, even when Democrats have won as much as fifty-three per cent of the aggregate statewide vote.
The media tends to focus on the federal judiciary, and particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, but state courts handle more than ninety per cent of cases in the American judicial system. “The whole country was distracted, in some ways, by the successes of the Warren Court in the sixties,” Jeff Mandell, a co-founder of Law Forward, a nonprofit progressive law firm in Madison, told me. “You had organizations like the A.C.L.U.
Since 2018, when Evers defeated Walker for the governorship, the Court has also played a decisive role in battles over the separation of powers. During the 2018 lame-duck session, the legislature stripped the governorship and the attorney general’s office of significant powers. The legislature also effectively created its own attorney general’s office by giving itself the power to hire a special counsel, which it has used to file a bevy of lawsuits against Evers and other officials.
In 2011, the state’s Supreme Court, overruling a lower court’s order, upheld Act 10, Walker’s signature anti-labor law, which all but eliminated collective-bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin. Protasiewicz participated in protests against Act 10, which also slashed the state’s contribution to workers’ health care and pensions, resulting in an average take-home pay cut of nearly nine per cent.
Lyerly, who has long brown hair and a disarming smile, was born and raised near Charlesburg, a hamlet south of Green Bay that was named after her great-great-grandfather. She was the first in her family to go to college. Afterward, she bounced around, working at an abortion clinic in Atlanta, a doctor’s office on an Alaskan island, and a rural hospital in north Georgia, where she did intake for impoverished patients.
. She noted that pregnancy exacerbates conditions like cervical cancer and chronic kidney disease: “How close does someone have to be to that line of death in order for it to be considered saving their life?”. “I stayed as far away from abortion as I could,” she said. “It was just too hot. But now I talk about it all the time, because we have to.” This month, she starred in a couple of ads for A Better Wisconsin Together, a liberal group supporting Protasiewicz.
Since then, Protasiewicz has outspent Kelly by nine million dollars on television ads alone. Her success is a reflection of the state’s Democratic Party and liberal dark-money groups largely catching up to the right in fund-raising. This troubles some progressives, who see Wisconsin’s tradition of clean, transparent elections slipping away for good.
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