Fresh off a landslide, Wisconsin liberals land their next Supreme Court hopeful

Wisconsin liberals landed their first major candidate for next year’s state Supreme Court race on Thursday when Lyndsey Brunette, a judge on the Clark County Circuit Court, announced she would run to replace a retiring conservative justice.

“Whether it’s protecting personal healthcare rights, safeguarding voting rights, or supporting public safety, we need to protect a majority on our state Supreme Court who will fairly and impartially uphold our laws,” Brunette said in a statement.

Brunette launched her campaign just over a week after Judge Chris Taylor, a fellow progressive, won another Supreme Court seat in a 60-40 blowout, a result that expanded the body’s liberal majority from 4-3 to 5-2.

If Brunette wins next April’s officially nonpartisan election to succeed Justice Annette Ziegler—another conservative who announced last month that she would not seek a new 10-year term—that advantage would balloon to 6-1. Such an outcome would leave Brian Hagedorn as the only remaining member of the high court’s once-dominant right-wing bloc.




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