As if trump knuckling under to Iran wasn't bad enough news for conservatives, they still has to deal with mass voter discontentment due to their horrible policies that ruined America and have become a massive weight that will drag down every republicans running for any office.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/wisconsin-supreme-court-electionWisconsin voters sent another liberal justice to the state supreme court, with Chris Taylor beating conservative Maria Lazar and giving liberals a 5-2 edge on the high court.The retirement of Justice Rebecca Bradley, a conservative, gave liberals a chance to further consolidate their hold on the high court ahead of the next presidential election, when the swing state is sure to see challenges to election results.Taylor, a liberal judge on the state’s court of appeals who previously served as a Democratic lawmaker, was running against Lazar, who is also on the court of appeals and a former deputy state attorney general.Taylor’s win gives liberals a 5-2 bloc on the bench. Taylor is seen as friendly to voting rights, while Lazar’s views aligned more closely with Republicans, pushing for policies that could hinder voting access and impact. Lazar had continued to defend maps in Wisconsin that were gerrymandered to lead to more Republican victories, which have since been overturned.Bradley wrote the court’s opinion that banned dropboxes, a frequent target of false election fraud claims about mail ballots, though liberals overturned that decision once they held control of the court. She has served on the state supreme court since 2015.While this year’s court election has not garnered anywhere near the level of attention as the previous two, advocates for voting rights say voters should continue to stay engaged with the court’s makeup.
“Wisconsin has been in the crosshairs of extensive litigation in terms of the way the state runs its elections,” Victoria Bassetti, a senior adviser to States United Democracy Center, told Bolts, a news website. “While this supreme court race may seem like a sleeper contest, from the democracy perspective, it’s anything but low-stakes … These issues never go to sleep in Wisconsin.”Though the high court’s justices are officially non-partisan, liberals held a 4-3 majority after flipping the court in 2023 in what was then the most expensive judicial election in US history, according to the Brennan Center. In 2025, Elon Musk got involved, and the supreme court race topped $100m, with Musk himself throwing in several million and groups he supported spending heavily. Susan Crawford, a liberal, ultimately won.This year’s race was much quieter – and significantly less expensive – than the previous two state supreme court elections.Taylor had the money edge in this year’s race, significantly fundraising more than Lazar. In a sign of the lower profile of this year’s contest, more than half of voters were still undecided in a March poll by Marquette law school conducted less than a month from election day.Judicial elections function differently depending on the state. In some, like Wisconsin, justices are directly elected. In others, and at the national level, they are appointed by partisan executive office-holders. Some states appoint judges, then hold retention elections where voters can decide whether to keep them in their roles. Overall, judicial elections have become much more expensive in recent years.
The race is another gauge of Democrats’ durability in this year’s midterms, particularly in a closely watched swing state, though the November ticket and voter turnout will be much different than a court election. Democratic candidates have recently won upset victories throughout the country in places typically held by Republicans, giving them momentum heading into November. Voters often side against the president in midterm elections.In the final days of campaigning, Lazar attacked Taylor as too partisan for the court, saying at a county Republican party office that “the court is not for sale”, according to Wisconsin Public Radio.“We actually want someone on that court who is extremely law nerdy and boring, and doesn’t care about politics at all, and only cares about the law and the constitution,” Lazar said.Taylor, speaking earlier at the county Democratic headquarters, emphasized the court’s ability to push back against the federal government, WPR reported.“We have an opportunity with this election to strengthen a pro-democracy majority on our court that’s going to protect our rights and freedoms, that’s going to protect our democracy and our elections, and that is going to hold and resist the efforts of the federal government to come into our state and to take away and infringe on our independence as a state,” Taylor said.
>>1504345I'm sorry Wisconsin.I'd say you'll find out soon.But they never seem to figure it out.
>>1504360What are you blathering about?
>>1504361Why liggerals are terrible.
Trump barely beat Clinton or Harris in Wisconsin. Obama and Biden carried the state when they ran. I'm not sure I'd call the state "right-leaning."
Oh No Trump BTFO Again
>>1504361Citizens shouldn't be allowed to vote. Unless they vote for Trump.
>>1504367>Why my forced memes are terribleI don't know but they are.
Why the fuck does America even vote for the judiciary? I can't think of a single functional country that does that shit.
>>1504389It's for state governments and it's unironically less corrupt than the federal ones when you look at who the republicans installed.
>>1504389They also vote for law enforcement officers like sheriffs. Weird
>Why Trumptards are terrible.>they never seem to figure out why they're losingftfy
Remember, Wisconsin's Supreme Court still has to sign off on new congressional districts this yearDespite being the most evenly split purple state in the union, the current map is 6-2 in Republicans favorA less conservative court will probably sign off on a 4-4 map to more closely represent the people of WisconsinThat is, unless Republicans in some red state like, oh I don't know, let's say Texas, were to openly declare they were redrawing districts to game the system and give themselves more seats and more red states followed suitThen a liberal court would have precedent and justification to completely flip the map and give Democrats a 6-2 advantage
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-warning-as-dems-flip-seat-in-maga-heartland-stronghold/Republicans also lost a mayoral race in an area that's been reliably republican for years
>>1504425Going 6-2 might lead to dummymanderingSo I expect them to play it safe and go 5-3 democratic give that still removes 3 seats from the republicans plot to steal congress.
Republicans rule by curtailing democracy Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen InitiativesAfter citizens in Republican states used ballot measures to protect abortion, expand Medicaid and raise the minimum wage, statehouses are moving to make such initiatives much harder.In North Dakota, Utah and South Dakota, legislatures are sponsoring measures on the November ballot that would raise the threshold for approving citizen amendments to 60 percent, not a simple majority.In Missouri, the legislature placed a measure on the ballot that would set an even higher bar: Citizen-sponsored amendments to the state constitution would have to win in each of the state’s eight U.S. House districts. An initiative that wins 95 percent of the vote statewide could lose if it fails in a single district.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/politics/republicans-citizen-initiatives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZVA.5b7H.8Oa1c9sMwjrG&smid=url-share
>>1504485Republicans always cheat and steal elections.
