{"id":10128,"date":"2024-04-11T23:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2024-04-12T06:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:40:54","slug":"leftist-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-wont-seek-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10128","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Won\u2019t Seek Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/04\/11\/leftist-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-wont-seek-reelection\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leftist-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-wont-seek-reelection\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/04\/11\/leftist-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-wont-seek-reelection\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leftist-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-wont-seek-reelection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-retire-192655774.html\">This was unexpected, but welcome<\/a>. We will have an open seat with no power of incumbency in play.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice\u00a0&lt;span class=&quot;caas-xray-inline-tooltip wafer-destroyed wafer-loader-success&quot; data-wf-template-id=&quot;caas-xray-inline-wafer-tooltip-template-with-close-953a2bfa-a022-302b-ac18-e4d0fd8c609d&quot; data-wf-local-storage-key=&quot;xray-inline-tooltip&quot; data-wf-tooltip-text=&quot;Get info without <br \/> leaving the page.&#8221; data-wf-tooltip-position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; data-wf-reset-every=&#8221;90&#8243;&gt;<span class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill rapid-nonanchor-lt\" data-entity-id=\"Ann_Walsh_Bradley\" data-ylk=\"cid:Ann_Walsh_Bradley;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Judge;\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Ann%20Walsh%20Bradley\" data-i13n=\"cid:Ann_Walsh_Bradley;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Judge;\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ann Walsh Bradley;cid:Ann_Walsh_Bradley;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Judge;\" data-rapid_p=\"16\" data-v9y=\"1\">Ann Walsh Bradley<\/a><\/span>\u00a0announced Thursday she would step down at the end of her term next spring, putting liberals\u2019 majority on the pivotal swing state\u2019s highest bench at stake.<\/p>\n<p>The April 2025 election to replace Bradley promises to be an expensive and bitter race and will likely feature many of the same momentous issues \u2014 like abortion rights and redistricting \u2014 that defined\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-liberals-win-majority-rcna77190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:a 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"17\" data-v9y=\"1\">a 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race\u00a0<\/a>that ultimately gave liberals their first majority on the bench in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Bradley, 73, said she would not run for a fourth 10-year term on the court, saying it was a good time to bring \u201cfresh perspectives to the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy 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\u2019s just time to pass the torch,\u201d wrote Bradley, who was elected to the technically nonpartisan court in 1995.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/04\/11\/leftist-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-wont-seek-reelection\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=leftist-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-wont-seek-reelection This was unexpected, but welcome. We will have an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10129,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions\/10129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}