That big Wisconsin state Supreme Court election, which could determine the fate of democracy in the state and maybe even the electoral college in 2024 as it will decide whether the court has a 4-3 liberal or conservative majority, is still being held on Tuesday even though disgraced former President Trump is being arraigned for his crimes in New York, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reports.
In the conservative corner is MAGA former state Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, appointed by Scott Walker in 2016 to fill a seat vacated by retiring Justice David Prosser and then defeated by liberal now-Justice Jill Karofsky in 2020. Later that year Kelly was paid $120,000 by the state GOP to advise them on the fake Trump electors plan. In the liberal corner is Milwaukee Judge Janet Protasiewicz, who has heavily hinted she’s going to work to protect abortion rights and redraw Wisconsin’s heavily GOP-gerrymandered state legislative and congressional district maps.
Protasiewicz has outspent Kelly and is considered a slight favorite – especially as Kelly already lost three years ago – but it’s possible Trump’s indictment fired up MAGA voters into turning out to support a scumbag who participated in one of the Orange Tyrant’s many crimes against democracy.