MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Electing a liberal state Supreme Court justice in Wisconsin is key to the future of the Democratic party, the nation's House minority leader has said with his mouth and checkbook.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) – NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre has joined other celebrities in supporting Judge Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Ahead of a debate that will help Wisconsin voters decide the future of its supreme court, conservative candidate Brad Schimel says his opponent has a "troubling history" of giving felons weaker prison terms than what prosecutors suggest.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - It's another 4-3 vote on the Wisconsin Supreme Court that has angered the conservative minority, as one justice says the denial of a voter's power to question how 2022 voting was held "guts" the people's access to courts in election law.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Anticipating another court challenge, the Wisconsin Elections Commission has certified the Green Party's Presidential candidate for this year's election - a move that could possibly take votes from Democrat Kamala Harris in the swing state.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Liberal justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court are accused by a colleague of doing the bidding of the Democratic Party as it attempts to quickly stop a third-party Presidential candidate from siphoning votes from Kamala Harris.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Wisconsin's liberal-led Supreme Court has bookended this term with politically motivated decisions, according to conservatives on the court who just had a ruling they made two years ago overturned.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - A police officer who was fired over offensive Facebook posts after he arrested former Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown doesn’t have a constitutional right to get his old job back, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Wisconsin conservatives are fighting the state Supreme Court’s attempt to redraw legislative voting districts after a liberal majority threw out existing maps over so-called “municipal islands” that have existed for decades and were upheld by the court as recently as 2022.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - The widow of a man who fell into a trailer attached to a semi-tractor and suffocated in corn gluten missed her chance to sue, as a Wisconsin appeals court has found his death involved a motor vehicle.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - A behind-the-scenes power struggle at the Wisconsin Supreme Court has made its way public, as Chief Justice Annette Ziegler is alleging the new liberal majority is attempting to rewrite the way business is conducted.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - A judge was out of line when he ordered a Wisconsin hospital to provide a patient dying of Covid-19 with the controversial anti-parasite drug Ivermectin, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled, upholding an appellate decision reversing the order.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Wisconsin law prohibits hospitals from charging a fee for electronic medical records, the state’s highest court ruled, drawing a fierce dissent from conservative justices who invoked John Locke to accuse their liberal colleagues of a “remarkable misconception of democracy” and upholding “tyranny.”
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Liberal Janet Protasiewicz will be Wisconsin's newest Supreme Court justice after prevailing in the most expensive judicial election in America's history.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Days before a contentious Wisconsin Supreme Court election that has drawn the attention - and dollars - of people nationwide, liberal candidate Janet Protasiewicz's campaign attempted to have rival groups' political ads pulled from the air.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - The one and only debate in this year's record-settingly expensive Wisconsin Supreme Court race saw the two candidates often attack each other's honesty.
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - The sentencing pattern of Milwaukee judge Janet Protasiewicz, a candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court who would create a liberal majority with a victory, reflects a light touch that creates problems in her community, the executive director of a conservative organization says.
A political committee backed by billionaire George Soros is spending millions of dollars to defeat the conservative candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in hopes of placing Judge Janet Protasiewicz on the bench and flipping the court majority to the liberal side.
