Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is up for grabs -- again -- in first big 2025 battleground race
Wisconsin voters will return to the polls this spring for the first major election in a battleground state since the 2024 presidential race.
The April 1 contest for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court — which will determine the bench’s ideological balance for the second time in two years — has already drawn millions of dollars from big names on both sides of the political aisle, with the future of a bevy of hot-button issues related to abortion rights, unions and congressional maps at stake.
“It’s probably going to be just as competitive as the last couple of presidential and gubernatorial elections and Senate elections here,” said former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican. The race, which is technically nonpartisan, promises to “reach a level that much more like what you see in partisan elections,” he added.
The seat is open after liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley announced last year she would not fun for a fourth 10-year term. The general election campaign quickly got underway after both sides quickly lined up behind a candidate and the primary was canceled.
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