AN ELECTION THAT COULD SPELL THE FATE OF DEMOCRACY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN WISCONSIN
The state’s notably partisan Supreme Court contest has already attracted a flood of money and endorsements from several prominent national figures. With abortion and voting rights hanging in the balance, the stakes, as one candidate tells Vanity Fair, “couldn’t be higher.”
For more than a decade now, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has acted as a “third branch” of its Republican-dominated legislature, according to Ben Wikler, chair of the state Democratic Party. But that could change this spring in an election that has enormous implications not only for the Dairy State, but for the country as a whole. “The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is the most critical election of 2023,” Wikler tells me, “both for Wisconsin and for American democracy.”
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