Community leader, law-abiding judge, and former prosecutor who made a profession out of defending victims. Having won Wisconsin's Supreme justices election, the justices will now favour abortion rights.Reuters, 4 April 2019 - Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal, was elected by Wisconsin voters to the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, reversing the court's conservative majority in advance of decisions on an abortion ban and other issues that could affect the 2024 presidential race. In what the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University referred to as the most expensive judicial race in American history, Protasiewicz defeated conservative candidate Daniel Kelly. WisPolitics.com analysis found that as of Monday, more than $42.3 million had been spent, far exceeding the prior The contest was predicted in Protasiewicz's favour by the Associated Press. Protasiewicz led Kelly by nearly 144,000 votes with 56.4% of the vote after 62% of the ballots had been tallied.record of $15.2 million.After 15 years, a court with a 4-3 conservative majority now has a liberal majority, a significant victory for proponents of abortion rights. This decision is likely to have an impact on a number of contentious issues, including voting rights and partisan control over the drafting of legislative maps.
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