Susan Crawford (D) makes her pitch for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
On Friday, Feb. 7, dozens of Dane County progressive voters, anxious about the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, crowded into Oregon’s Kickback Cafe to see Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford make her campaign pitch.
Looking for something tangible to do as President Donald Trump and billionaire Trump advisor Elon Musk work to dismantle pieces of the federal government, deport thousands of undocumented immigrants and roll back protections for minority groups, voters like Diane Olsen and Anne Hecht of Fitchburg said they were supporting Crawford’s campaign because they want to see the retention of a liberal majority on the state’s highest court that upholds “fairness and honesty, adherence to the law,” Olsen said.
“I feel strongly she’d represent things that are positive,” Olsen continued.
Wisconsin’s April 1 Supreme Court election will be one of the first statewide elections in the country since Trump’s win in November. The race for an open seat being vacated by retiring Justice Ann Walsh Bradley will determine the ideological balance of the Court and provide the first test of the voting public’s mood early in the Trump administration. Crawford, a former prosecutor for the state Department of Justice and a current judge on the Dane County Circuit Court, is going up against Brad Schimel, a former Republican attorney general and now a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge.
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