{"id":586,"date":"2023-02-22T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=586"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:12:07","slug":"protasiewicz-kelly-advance-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Protasiewicz &amp; Kelly Advance in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/april-election-set-protasiewicz-and-kelly-advance-in-supreme-court-race\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/april-election-set-protasiewicz-and-kelly-advance-in-supreme-court-race\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Collage-Maker-22-Feb-2023-11.59-AM.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wisconsin Supreme Court Race\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Global Disinformation Index\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judge Janet Protasiewicz easily won Tuesday\u2019s primary, getting about 445,00 votes. Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly edged out Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow by getting just over 232,000 votes to her nearly 210,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly immediately framed the race for the court as a choice between his views on the rule of law, and Protasiewicz\u2019s view of what she wants the law to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said that in most cases there won\u2019t be a thumb on the scale, as if that was meant to reassure us,\u201d Kelly told News Talk 1130 WISN\u2019s Jay Weber Wednesday morning. \u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to have your thumb on the scale ever. And if you do it even once, it disqualifies you from any office of trust within the judiciary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protasiewicz is framing the race as a choice between Kelly\u2019s pro-life stance and her pro-abortion stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be running against someone who doesn\u2019t think women get to make their own reproductive rights. I will guarantee you that my opponent, if elected, will uphold the 1849 near-total abortion ban. I can guarantee you that,\u201d Protasiewicz said Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s victory came after a contentious campaign against Dorow, who became instantly famous for overseeing the Waukesha Christmas Parade massacre trial.<\/p>\n<p>Dorow took to Twitter Tuesday night to pledge her support to Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all my supporters, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I ask that you join me in supporting Dan Kelly in the race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Wisconsin needs a Supreme Court justice who will protect our constitutional rights and not legislate from the bench,\u201d she said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate Judge Dorow\u2019s graciousness. She was just incredibly generous last night in the conversation we had, and with her pledge of support to our efforts to win in April, and her commitment of supporting us,\u201d Kelly said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s race for Supreme Court is the most expensive and most watched in the country. A number of reports say the race has already seen more than $7 million in ads, mostly from outside groups. By the time Election Day comes in April, experts say Wisconsin\u2019s Supreme Court race could be the most expensive in U.S. History, Currently that crown is held by Illinois\u2019 2004 race for the Supreme Court which cost over $15 million.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly and Protasiewicz will face voters again in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/april-election-set-protasiewicz-and-kelly-advance-in-supreme-court-race\/ Judge Janet Protasiewicz easily won Tuesday\u2019s primary, getting about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","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\/586","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}