Stark differences define the latest State Supreme Court race
The Taylor (D) camp also points to what they see as disturbing alliances Lazar (R) has forged with election deniers, such as Michael Gableman, who lost his law license after false allegations surrounding the 2020 election. She has also made appearances, Taylor points out, with such other so-called election deniers as Northeast Wisconsin Patriots and Fox Valley Initiative.
When it comes to then President Trump’s attempts to toss out nearly 200,000 ballots from Dane and Milwaukee Counties in that election, Taylor is quick to note that it was only a 4-3 majority that preserved the state for Joe Biden, with conservative justice Brian Hagedorn joining the majority to avert a potential post-election fiasco.
Lazar has remained largely silent on the matter, though in 2024 she wrote an opinion contradicting another appeals court ruling that would have allowed a conservative group questioning the election results to access confidential health records to determine if they were mentally fit to vote.
Both candidates sit on the Court of Appeals – Lazar, in Waukesha; Taylor in Madison. Each arrived via starkly different avenues. Lazar calls her opponent a politician and, indeed, Taylor did spend 10 years in the State Assembly after working for years as an attorney and policy director for Planned Parenthood. In 2020, Gov. Evers appointed her to the Dane County Circuit Court before she won election to the Court of Appeals in 2023.
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