Abortion, Electoral Kookiness Lose in Wisconsin

The Democrat won in an important race for a seat on Wisconsin's supreme court yesterday, and it would behoove the Republican Party to take a moment to ask itself why:

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At the center of the race, however, was abortion rights.

The state Supreme Court is widely expected to decide the fate of the state’s restrictive 1849 abortion law in the near term.

Several of Protasiewicz’s television advertisements emphasized her support for abortion rights and slammed “extremists” on the other side. Kelly, who refrained from saying how he would rule in such a case, was endorsed by three groups that oppose abortion rights, and he provided counsel to another Wisconsin group that opposes abortion rights. [bold added]

Another story notes:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court may also be asked once again to rule on a challenge to a presidential election. In 2020, the court threw out a challenge brought by former President Donald Trump with conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn joining the liberal members of the court.

While a majority of the justices refused to hear Trump's challenge to the election, three justices on the seven-member court wanted to take up the case.

Both stories discussed elections, but with different slants, with the leftist NBC News focusing on the court's role in how Wisconsin draws its electoral maps and the right-wing Newsweek noting the court's reaction to one of Donald Trump's loony 2020 electoral challenges.

But both outlets note that this election could end up costing the GOP House seats if questions arise about how congressional districts are drawn up.

The GOP, which these days runs as "not the Democrats" while only actually getting excited by banning abortion or being Donald Trump's lapdog has only itself to blame for losing a majority in that court for the first time in 15 years.

-- CAV