Category Archives: judicial elections

Wisconsin: “5 takeaways from the only Supreme Court election debate. Daniel Kelly and Janet Protasiewicz take the gloves off.”

March 22, 2023, 7:39 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: For nearly an hour, Kelly and Protasiewicz battled at the State Bar of Wisconsin’s headquarters in Madison — accusing each other of running deceitful campaigns and being an unprecedented danger to the state. Protasiewicz called Kelly one of… Continue reading

“Reframing judicial elections — not ‘who should we elect,’ but ‘why should we elect them at all?'”

March 18, 2023, 7:13 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

The Fulcrum.

“In Wisconsin, Liberals Barrage Conservative Court Candidate With Attack Ads”

March 15, 2023, 7:38 amcampaign finance, judicial electionsRick Hasen

NYT: As conservatives in Wisconsin seek to maintain control of the State Supreme Court in an all-important election for a crucial swing seat, they would appear to be fighting uphill. The conservative candidate, Daniel Kelly, is trailing in limited private… Continue reading

“In Wisconsin’s nationally watched Supreme Court race, candidate Janet Protasiewicz agrees to 1 televised debate, skips other public forums”

March 7, 2023, 6:45 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz agreed Monday to one televised debate and has turned down other public forums that voters have used to hear from candidates for the state’s highest court — including a debate that has… Continue reading

“Wisconsin should stop electing justices to the state Supreme Court”

February 27, 2023, 10:45 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

Ruth Conniff oped.

Wisconsin: “Janet Protasiewicz, Daniel Kelly advance in high stakes, high-spending Supreme Court race”

February 22, 2023, 7:34 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz and former Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly emerged Tuesday as the two winners of a record-setting primary fight to compete for a seat on the state’s highest court that will decide whether the… Continue reading

“Bice: Supreme Court candidate Daniel Kelly was paid $120,000 by Republicans to work on ‘election integrity,’ advise on fake electors”

February 17, 2023, 12:33 pmfraudulent fraud squad, judicial electionsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Former state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly — who has been critical of his opponents for their partisanship — has been paid nearly $120,000 by the state Republican Party and the Republican National Committee over the past two years… Continue reading

“Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race is expected to top $6 million in spending. And that’s just for the primary.”

February 13, 2023, 7:39 amcampaign finance, judicial electionsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin’s officially non-partisan Supreme Court race is getting big money from outside interest groups in one of the hotly contested races in the country. With less than two weeks to go, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court candidates and outside groups… Continue reading

Breaking: North Carolina Supreme Court Grants Rehearing in Case Striking Down Congressional Districts as a Partisan Gerrymander, Potentially Mooting U.S. Supreme Court’s Independent State Legislature Case, Moore v. Harper

February 3, 2023, 3:46 pmjudicial elections, legislation and legislatures, redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

On a 5-2 vote along party lines, the North Carolina Supreme Court has granted rehearing to reconsider its decision striking the state’s congressional districts as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders under the state constitution. It is also considering the state districts as… Continue reading

“Nonpartisan in name only. Wisconsin Supreme Court race has political overtones.”

February 2, 2023, 6:31 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz is focusing her campaign for the state Supreme Court on her belief that women should be able to choose whether to continue pregnancies and has characterized the state’s Republican-written legislative maps as … Continue reading

“2023’s Biggest, Most Unusual Race Centers on Abortion and Democracy”

January 25, 2023, 7:31 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

NYT: In 10 weeks, Wisconsin will hold an election that carries bigger policy stakes than any other contest in America in 2023. The April race, for a seat on the state’s evenly divided Supreme Court, will determine the fate of… Continue reading

“Leonard Leo is quietly remaking state high courts in his conservative image”

December 28, 2022, 7:34 amcampaign finance, judicial electionsRick Hasen

Grid News: For the past decade, Leonard Leo has led a multimillion-dollar effort to remake state Supreme Courts, leveraging hefty support from corporate backers like Philip Morris and Charles Koch and his late brother, David. Leo, a longtime conservative… Continue reading

“Chief justice in Ohio map flap: Court attacks harm democracy”

December 21, 2022, 2:59 pmjudicial elections, redistrictingRick Hasen

AP: Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor isn’t rattled on a personal level by the political attacks she endured from fellow Republicans during Ohio’s protracted redistricting fight. She’s confident she “did the right thing” in ruling their proposed political maps… Continue reading

Divided Sixth Circuit enjoins some enforcement of Kentucky’s campaign speech rules in upcoming judicial election

October 31, 2022, 10:34 amjudicial electionsDerek Muller

From the per curiam opinion (Judges Thapar and Murphy) in Fischer v. Thomas (with light revisions):

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