Author: Scott Bauer

The high-stakes race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court has gotten most of the attention leading up to the April 1 election, but it is not the only issue voters will decide when they vote. Also on the ballot is a race for the battleground state’s top education official who will guide policies affecting K-12 schools during President Donald Trump’s second term. There is also a measure that would place the state’s voter ID law into the state constitution. Both of those contests have sharp partisan divisions, even though the spending and national attention have been far less than those...

Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges in December against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year. Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin, Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who advised the campaign, and Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020, all initially faced a single felony forgery charge in Wisconsin. Those charges were filed in June. But two days before the three are scheduled for their initial court...

A judge’s overturning of Wisconsin’s 13-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for teachers and most state government employees has rekindled a battle over labor rights in a state where the first public sector unions were formed 65 years ago. But before unions head back to the bargaining table, more legal fights await. Here are five things to know about the law, the current challenge and what happens next: WHAT IS THE FIGHT ABOUT? At its core, the battle is over whether tens of thousands of teachers, nurses, prison guards and other state government employees can bargain over their...

As election officials across the country boost security ahead of November’s election, the leader of one of the most intensely scrutinized offices in a presidential swing state said it’s not personal threats or worries about conflicts at the polls that keep her up at night. It is the little things that could loom large once voting begins, the day-to-day logistics of making sure everything runs smoothly at 180 polling sites in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city, from ensuring there are enough ballots to having a sufficient number of poll workers. “Being a new election administrator is a big challenge,” Paulina...