RACINE, Wis. — Mayor Cory Mason and eight Racine Common Council members were sworn into office Tuesday night in front of family, friends and political supporters. Mayor Cory Mason poses for a selfie with a well-wisher after election results confirmed that he’d been re-elected to a four-year term as mayor. (April 4, 2023) – The […]
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Wisconsin Supreme Court has highest percentage of female justices on a top state court in the country
March 20, 2023 By Peter Cameron, THE BADGER PROJECT This year’s campaign for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is again so hard-fought and expensive, the historic gender makeup of the court has been almost an afterthought. Clockwise from top left: Chief Justice Annette Ziegler, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley, former Justice Daniel Kelly, […]
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Supreme Court candidates accuse each other of lying, extremism in sole debate
by Henry Redman, Wisconsin ExaminerMarch 21, 2023 This story has been updated. In the only debate of an increasingly expensive and heated campaign between Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz and former Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly for an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the two candidates exchanged attacks over their impartiality, legal histories […]
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OPINION: Keep the Rule of Law: Spring 2023 election for Wisconsin Supreme Court
OPINION — Wisconsin has an opportunity to ensure that our Supreme Court will follow the law. This is always important, but with individuals stating publicly that they would ignore the law because they sympathize with various social issues, it is even more important today. Our government is structured so this should never happen. Laws are […]
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Conservative Supreme Court candidates push for more legislative investigations, election lawsuits
by Henry Redman, Wisconsin ExaminerJanuary 3, 2023 Update: This story has been updated to include a comment from Dan Kelly’s campaign. The two conservatives running for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court appeared at an event in early December in which they stated support for legislative investigations in the style of the discredited review […]
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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates debate values in first appearance together
by Henry Redman, Wisconsin ExaminerJanuary 10, 2023 The four judges vying to fill an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court appeared together at a forum hosted by Wispolitics.com Monday to debate the values and judicial philosophies they say they’ll bring to the court if elected. On stage at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in […]
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Attempting to shift balance, Janet Protasiewicz says she’ll bring fairness to state Supreme Court
by Henry Redman, Wisconsin ExaminerDecember 12, 2022 Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz says that if elected to the state Supreme Court in April, she’s not looking to just establish a liberal version of the reliably conservative voting block that currently controls the court. The former prosecutor is one of four candidates and two […]
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Mitchell pushes judicial fairness as he tries to escape Barnes campaign shadow
by Henry Redman, Wisconsin ExaminerFebruary 9, 2023 Everett Mitchell says that his competency as a judge is never why people say he can’t be elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court this spring. Instead, he’s been dogged by questions — and fears from the state’s left-wing — about nominating a Black man in a statewide race […]
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Dorow tells convicted drug dealers they ‘should be held responsible’ for overdose deaths
by Henry Redman, Wisconsin ExaminerFebruary 2, 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate and Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow has overseen more drug-induced homicide cases over the last five years than any of her Waukesha County colleagues, state court records show. Dorow has frequently told drug users and drug dealers they must be held responsible for providing […]
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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Dan Kelly makes his case
by Bill Lueders, Wisconsin ExaminerFebruary 9, 2023 What Daniel Kelly wants, what he really, really wants, is to be able to throw his support behind Jennifer Dorow, his fellow conservative candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court, should she advance from the Feb. 21 primary and he doesn’t. “I would love to be able to make that […]
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Candidate Mitchell: ‘Fairness and justice is what I’m all about’
RACINE — Dane County Circuit Judge Everett Mitchell, a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice candidate, told an audience here Monday that he’ll be “a listening judge.” Dane County Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell chats with attendees at a campaign event Monday evening. – “It’s time for us to remember that all the different rights are respected. […]