{"id":4650,"date":"2023-08-03T05:03:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T05:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2023-08-03T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T06:00:38","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-flips-to-liberal-control-for-the-first-time-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4650","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Supreme Court Flips to Liberal Control for the First Time in 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-flips-to-liberal-control-for-the-first-time-in-15-years\/jtnews\/2023\/08\/03\/\">https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-flips-to-liberal-control-for-the-first-time-in-15-years\/jtnews\/2023\/08\/03\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by Madeleine Hubbard<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrat\u00a0Janet Protasiewicz was sworn into the Wisconsin Supreme Court, flipping the body to liberal control after having a conservative majority for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Protasiewicz, a former Milwaukee County judge who\u00a0won her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/wisconsin-voters-head-polls-supreme-court-race-could-flip-bench\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">election<\/a>\u00a0in April, was sworn in Tuesday to a 10-year term in the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all want a Wisconsin where our freedoms are protected,\u201d she said at the swearing-in ceremony, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-supreme-court-liberal-8800fc9d37e6194f777c2fed261c5d37\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cWe want a Wisconsin with a fair and impartial Supreme Court. We all want to live in communities that are safe. And we all want a Wisconsin where everyone is afforded equal justice under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the officially nonpartisan race, Protasiewicz campaigned on abortion rights and called the state\u2019s Republican-drawn\u00a0district maps \u201crigged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court is now expected to hear cases on abortion and GOP-drawn legislative districts. Additionally, a Democratic group filed a lawsuit looking to undo a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling from last year that banned absentee voting drop boxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Madeleine Hubbard joined Just the News as a fast file reporter after working as an editor at Breitbart News.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Photo \u201cJanet Protasiewicz\u201d by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=647524530706013&amp;set=pb.100063454165271.-2207520000.&amp;type=3\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Janet for Justice<\/a>. Background Photo \u201cWisconsin Supreme Court\u201d by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Interior_view_-_Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_-_DSC03163.JPG\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Daderot<\/a>. CC0 1.0.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.1;color: #aaa\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Reprinted with permission from<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/courts-law\/wisconsin-supreme-court-flips-liberal-control-first-time-15-years\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\"> Just the News\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-flips-to-liberal-control-for-the-first-time-in-15-years\/jtnews\/2023\/08\/03\/\">Wisconsin Supreme Court Flips to Liberal Control for the First Time in 15 Years<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\">The Wisconsin Daily Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-flips-to-liberal-control-for-the-first-time-in-15-years\/jtnews\/2023\/08\/03\/ by Madeleine Hubbard \u00a0 Democrat\u00a0Janet Protasiewicz was sworn into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}