{"id":10030,"date":"2024-04-12T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2024-04-12T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:40:02","slug":"liberal-justice-anne-walsh-bradley-not-running-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10030","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Justice Anne Walsh Bradley Not Running for Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/liberal-justice-bradley-not-running-for-reelection\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Justice<\/p>\n

(The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s next supreme court race could be even more contentious and even more expensive than the last one.<\/p>\n

Liberal Justice Anne Walsh Bradley on Thursday surprised the state when she announced she will not run for re-election next year.<\/p>\n

“My decision has not come lightly. It is made after careful consideration and reflection. I know I can do the job and do it well. I know I can win re-election, should I run. But it’s just time to pass the torch, bring fresh perspectives to the court,” Walsh Bradley said in a statement.<\/p>\n

She is one of Wisconsin\u2019s longest serving justices, serving her third 10-year term on the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 177-year history of the court, only four justices have served longer than my length of service,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Walsh Bradley\u2019s decision means the next election will be open.<\/p>\n

Former Republican attorney general, and current Waukesha County judge, Brad Schimel has already jumped into the race. There aren\u2019t any declared Democrats yet.<\/p>\n

Schimel on Thursday said Walsh Bradley\u2019s decision isn\u2019t changing anything for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning of my campaign, I made it clear that I\u2019m not just running against one person, I\u2019m running against this Court\u2019s leftist majority,\u201d Schimel said. \u201cI wish Justice Ann Walsh Bradley well in retirement after decades of public service. I look forward to continuing the fight to bring integrity and respect for the Constitution back to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wisconsin\u2019s last race for the supreme court, in April of 2023, set records for spending. The race between Justice Janet Protasiewicz<\/a> and former Justice Dan Kelly cost more than $56 million. That makes the 2023 Wisconsin race the most expensive judicial race in American history. Many court observers and politicos in Wisconsin say the 2025 race could be just as expensive, or even more expensive.<\/p>\n

Protasiewicz\u2019s victory flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court<\/a> to a 4-3 liberal majority for the first time in 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/liberal-justice-bradley-not-running-for-reelection\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s next supreme court race…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":10032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10033,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/10033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}