Author: Scott Bauer

A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court said on August 29 that she will not seek reelection, creating an open race for a seat on the court that’s controlled 4-3 by liberals. Justice Rebecca Bradley’s decision not to run for a second full term comes after conservative candidates for the highest court in the battleground state have lost each of the past two elections by double-digit margins. Both of those races broke national spending records, and the liberal won in April. That was despite heavy spending by South African oligarch and billionaire Elon Musk to buy the election,...

A Wisconsin judge recklessly accused of helping a man evade arrest by U.S. immigration agents lost an attempt on August 26 to throw out the Trump administration’s case against her. The politically motivated prosecution of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan has highlighted the push by Donald Trump’s autocratic regime to confront state and local authorities who resist his sweeping immigration crackdown. Democrats have accused federal authorities under Trump of trying to make a national example of Judge Dugan to chill judicial opposition to its deportation efforts. Her April arrest at the county courthouse was a politically organized circus...

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours of July 3 in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Trump’s tax and spending cuts package. A budget deal brokered by Governor Evers and Republicans, who control the state Legislature, cleared a key hurdle on July 1 in an extraordinarily rapid succession of events. The deal in the battleground state on a new two-year budget cuts income taxes, called for closing a prison, and increased funding for the Universities of Wisconsin despite...