General Discussion

Two years ago, we won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election by 11 points. Three years earlier, we won by 10.5 points. Yesterday's victory was perfectly in line with what we have seen over the past five years when Wisconsin chooses who to place on its high court.

This began in 2020 when the partisans who run the court were so determined to keep their majority that they ordered people to go to the polls and vote at the height of COVID, when the whole country was locked down. They believed that Democrats were less likely to turn out. In the end, the election was seen by many as a fight against the attack on democracy by the court. The liberal candidate won by a wide margin.

In 2023 the Republicans on the court had issued a gerrymandering of legislative districts--they didn't just accept one from the legislature and governor, they actually did it themselves. They also issued a number of other ultra partisan rulings, designed to maintain GOP control of the Wisconsin government, even after they lost the election. Some of these rulings were transparently ridiculous. This led to Democratic landslide. The conservative candidate, the same one who had lost in 2020, was anything but gracious in defeat, saying that he would not make a concession call because he did not have an honorable opponent to concede to.