The Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Is WAY More Important Than You Think

The outcome of Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election between Republican-backed Dan Kelly and Democratic-supported Janet Protasiewicz will determine control of the court and potentially impact abortion access, Republican-drawn legislative maps, and GOP policies in the key swing state. Democrats are hoping to flip control of the court, which has had a majority of conservative justices for the past 15 years. Protasiewicz has made the race a referendum on abortion and has won the backing of Planned Parenthood and other similar groups. Kelly has expressed opposition to abortion in the past, but hasn't stated whether he thinks the state's ban on nearly all abortions is legal. The winner of the election will be the deciding justice on issues ranging from abortion to disputes over the 2024 presidential election.

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This is KJ from Wisconsin. KJ is from Wisconsin. First off, you've just reminded me. you have a very very important election on Tuesday KJ. tell me you're voting in that election for the Supreme Court. That way I can let you that's exactly what I want to talk about. Okay, perfect. I don't know how to follow up on that last call that was pretty good. but I did want to talk about the Wisconsin situation. we're in a unique, uniquely purple situation that a lot of other states don't have. considering how close even just the Mandela versus Ron Johnson election was this past one. I think it came down to 27 000 votes. and we should be clear Barnes got no support from the national Democrats. oh yeah absolutely it was very fresh I I I was shocked that there was just nothing. And he was not my favorite by any means. but he had tons of policies. He had all this stuff going for him. and you know Warren knows considering what the Democrats have been doing. it could have been helpful to pick that up but. yep. sure I guess. yeah but this election has been very interesting because they're [Applause] I think the Republicans in this state have learned from the more National Online it seems that the whole trans Panic doesn't seem to work as well as they want it to. a lot of people just really don't care you know? it doesn't one of my favorite moments was talking with some of my co-workers in my old summer job working for the city. and when they heard about transgender people they were just like okay. That doesn't affect me. Why do you guys care? so they've doubled down on a lot of the same things they always do. Which is just a crime stupid crime is through the roof. every single advertisement. and there are tech specs to it's just endless about Janet Protasiewicz it's just gonna drive up crime. and she's letting criminals off. and it's just an endless wave. but one of the things that came out there's a Milwaukee Sentinel article please use ad blockers. that came out two days ago was about a senate Republican. I can't remember his name Dan nodal. okay. I'm talking about if they take over the Senate again or preserve a republican super majority they want to immediately move to impeach Janet if she were to get elected. and I just don't get it. At what point do we just say Hey look, they don't actually care about the policy anymore. they're not here to do anything they're just here to make sure they win and then they can set whatever roles they want. oh ah, dude I would say in Wisconsin that that point was about 13 years ago I think when Scott Walker was rolling back the right to unionize in that state. and was getting rid of BadgerCare. I would say that was 13 years ago in Wisconsin. I have to say this race in Wisconsin dollar for dollar you know sort of like size for size is perhaps one of the most important races that we could see around the country you know including you know even the Senate races. because we got a one you know vote margin in the Senate. This thing is this race here in Wisconsin and in many respects, this is where this era of republicanism started.