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The four liberal justice voted to change court rules that include shifting some decision-making power from conservative Chief Justice Annette Ziegler.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to toss out the state’s Republican-drawn legislative maps as unconstitutional, coming one day after the high court officially flipped to a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years. The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of law firms and voting rights advocacy groups, requests all 132 state…
Janet Protasiewicz defeated her conservative opponent, former state supreme court judge Dan Kelly, to win a seat on Wisconsin's highest court.
Conservative/liberal majority, but the cases it decides to take. >> i think she will play a very influential role. we don't know what happens behind closed doors when they're conferring and talking about these issues, but the breadth of experience she brings, the idea of having the policy background, i remind people of course the other person to be on the supreme court who had sentencing commission experience is the person that she stands to possibly replace and succeed in that notion, justice stephen breyer. the confluence of all these factors, someone who has been a trial judge, somebody who...
0 get here today are some of the key answers. we have seen in hearings past nominees refuse to weigh in on what can come before the court, to the concern and consternation of members on this committee. expect some moments of contentiousness between republicans and this nominee. we'll see how she responds to pointed and direct questions. will she get tripped up and will anything change and will she win over any republicans to ultimately support her? one republican who could break ranks lindsey graham who voted for her for the d.c. circuit told me yesterday it is a different game when it comes t...