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Celebrating victory after a highly anticipated race, Susan Crawford claims her seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court
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Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy. Our fair elections and our Supreme Court
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And Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price
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Our courts are not for sale. Crawford's win cements a liberal majority in the court for at least three more years
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While the vote is technically non-partisan, President Donald Trump had endorsed the conservative candidate, Brad Schimmel
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and state Democrats and Republicans had lined up behind their preferred candidate
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The contest has widely been seen as an early referendum on Trump's presidency
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Wisconsin's top court is poised to decide whether abortion rights should remember
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main legal statewide and is likely to issue critical rulings on voting rights and could
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redraw congressional boundary lines. In November, Trump won Wisconsin, a swing state by less than a
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percentage point, the closest margin of any state. The race saw historic turnout with several
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polling stations in Milwaukee running out of ballot papers. It comes after an unprecedented $90 million
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spent on the campaign. Driving this was Elon Musk, who, along with groups aligned with him
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spent some $25 million. The world's richest man handed out million-dollar checks to voters
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and offered Wisconsinites $100 each to sign a petition in opposition to, quote, activist judges
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Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General sued to block the payments, arguing they violated a state
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anti-bribery law, though those efforts were rejected
