The state’s district lines are consistently ranked as the most gerrymandered in the country. Democrats hope the election on April 4th will help break the stranglehold Republicans have held on its politics
is fundamentally odd. The perfect example of this is the race to fill an open seat for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The two candidates met for the only debate of the campaign on March 21st. Daniel Kelly, the relative conservative, insisted in his closing remarks that he was, in essence, a completely apolitical man. “We must not talk about politics,” he said.
Mr Kelly, who was appointed to the court in 2016 by a Republican governor, is expected to rule to maintain the state’ss. He is also expected to vote to keep the state’s ban on abortion, which was passed in 1849, in effect. Janet Protasiewicz, his opponent, a liberal circuit-court judge from Milwaukee, is telegraphing her opinions rather unsubtly. She talks frequently about her fundamental belief that a woman has a right to choose. And she has called the current maps rigged.
These lines are consistently ranked as the most gerrymandered in the country. Mr Wikler hopes the maps will be revisited. Last year the Supreme Court, ruled by a conservative majority, sided with the Republican legislature rather than seeking a compromise. It was also unusually strict about voting challenges, making it harder to cast absentee ballots.
It is true that Ms Protasiewicz has campaigned on political lines that hardly focus on legal questions, turning the competition into what he says “is a de facto legislative race”. In a series of advertisements, for example, she has highlighted her view that abortion should be legal. That is certainly animating the race. Before the televised debate, a protester dressed as a uterus appeared outside the venue to greet the watchers.
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