For the first time since 2015, a liberal has been elected chief justice of Wisconsin's Supreme Court. Outgoing Justice Ann Walsh Bradley will take the helm for the next two months before retiring and will be succeeded by fellow liberal Justice Jill Karofsky for the remainder of the two-year term.

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Billionaire Elon Musk says he’ll visit Wisconsin to personally give $2 million to two people ahead of the state Supreme Court election, despite a state law that explicitly bans giving people anything of value in exchange for voting. Wisconsin Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court Friday seeking to stop the event.

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The number of people choosing early, in-person voting is nearly double what it was during the state's last supreme court election with Waukesha County currently leading Milwaukee and Dane counties in early votes.

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The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives says Wisconsin's Supreme Court election is vital because the only way to challenge "gerrymandered" congressional voting maps is "if you have an enlightened Supreme Court" overseeing a legal challenge.

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Elon Musk hosted an online forum on Saturday on his social media site, X, to promote conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel.

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President Donald Trump has endorsed conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel's run for Wisconsin Supreme Court, a move Republicans hope will motivate more Trump voters to turn out on April 1.

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All told, clerks across the state report receiving nearly 29,000 more votes this year than at the same point in the 2023 Supreme Court race.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told Democrats at an Eau Claire town hall Tuesday the road to fighting back against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk starts with getting liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on April 1.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will visit Eau Claire next week to rally Democrats ahead of key elections this year and next.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will visit Eau Claire next week to rally Democrats ahead of key elections this year and next.

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As Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, initiates federal funding cuts and mass layoffs, Wisconsin Republicans' version is just getting started.

The first hearing of the Legislature's Committee on Government Operations, Accountability and Transparency, or GOAT, focused on state employees working from home since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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After a liberal blowout in the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race, Brad Schimel says his campaign won't make the same mistakes. 

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In a unanimous decision, the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted to hold depositions of Madison elections officials including city Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl. The commission wants more information about how 193 ballots went uncounted during the presidential election and weren't reported to state officials for weeks.

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Four Madison voters have launched a class-action lawsuit seeking $175,000 each because the city clerk's office failed to count their ballots during the November presidential election.

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An election that could tip the ideological balance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is less than one month away, but large numbers of Wisconsinites in a new poll say they don't know enough about the two candidates who are vying for the job.

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The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is working to tie state Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel to Elon Musk with an ad campaign titled the "People v. Musk."

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Congress has set targets for cutting $2 trillion in federal spending and $880 billion of that could come from programs including Medicaid.

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U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson got an earful from constituents concerned about mass federal layoffs, potential cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency during dueling virtual town halls, Thursday.

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Republican supporters of the bill say it would make Wisconsin safer, while opponents say it raises civil rights concerns and would erode trust in law enforcement among members of migrant communities.

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