The Wisconsin Supreme Court will maintain its narrow liberal majority after Susan Kraovord, the judge of the circle in Dan Province, won one of the most judicial races that the government is seen in the years-and its most expensive in all ages.
While the elections were technically non -partisan, the Democratic Party and liberal groups threw their support behind Krufford, while the Republicans and their allies lined up behind Brad Shemel, the judge of the Wakisha County Department and the former public lawyer in the state of Badger during the era of the Republican Party's Scott Walker.
Crowford will now spend a 10-year term in the seven court, which has 4-3 division in favor of liberal judges over the conservatives.
The control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court was seen as vital by the Republican Party and Democrats alike due to the potential impact on issues such as the re -division of Congress, miscarriage and the rights of public sector unions.
The limited poll showed a narrow race between the competitors, with Croford constantly, if it was minimal.
The conservatives had detained the court for more than a decade before the election of liberal justice Janet Protassific in 2023.
After this vote, the state's Supreme Court decided not to review the map of Republican congressions, but the judges are discussing the legislative maps of the state that the Republican Party also supports-with the re-division of circles to appear as a cause after the 2030 census.
Kruvord and Shamil were nominated to replace liberal justice, Ann Walsh Bradley, who refused to seek a fourth state after his first election in court in 1995.
Wisconsin has a democratic governor and prosecutor, but Republicans control the state's legislative body, and these elections were widely considered to draw a tie to control the state government in Madison.
President Trump, who won the state of Badger in the November elections, supported Shemel and his close ally, Elon Musk, to Wisconsin last weekend and opened his check note to help conservatives.
Musk immersed the tactics similar to those that it published in the states of a swing such as Pennsylvania during the 2024 campaign, as it provided money of up to one million dollars to the local population who supported a petition against “active judges”.
Trump has also detonated messages on his social media platform urging voters in Wisconsin to support Shimel.
The president wrote on the truth in fact last month: “Brad Shimmel is fighting against the left liberal Susan Krufford, which has been repeatedly gave to the harassment of children, the rapists, the women, and the provisions of the local” light “of the local.
“It is the voice of the left leftists who go out of your mandate and our country – and if it wins, the movement to restore our nation will go beyond Weskonen.”
The total spending in the race was 90 million dollars, according to the analysis of the Brennan Center from Brennan Non -Parties – as at least $ 22 million spent a Cruford campaign, 12 million dollars by Musk's America PAC and $ 11 million in the Schimel campaign.
In general, the center's analysis found that Schimel had an external spending advantage, with nearly 50 million dollars behind it, compared to $ 40 million in Cruford's help.
