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Wisconsin Democrats are launching a $4 million effort aimed at defending a newly elected liberal justice on the state Supreme Court from a potential impeachment push by Republican state legislators. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin and other aligned groups rolled out a multi-million dollar initiative on Wednesday called Defend Justice that aims to “to hold Wisconsin Legislative Republicans

Today, the nonprofit liberal law firm Law Forward filed a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s voting maps directly with the state supreme court. The lawsuit asks the Court to overturn the state’s voting maps which have long been condemned by Democrats as the most skewed in the nation. Mark Gaber is the senior director of redistricting at Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit voting watchdog group. He

MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin Democrats celebrated the beginning of a new era for the state Supreme Court on Tuesday as it flipped from conservative to liberal control for the first time in 15 years. Janet Protasiewicz, who made abortion rights a focus of her winning election campaign and called Republican-drawn redistricting maps "rigged," marked the start of her 10-year term with a swearing-in

Wisconsin Democrats are launching a $4 million ad blitz over the next several weeks to target GOP lawmakers that are considering whether to pursue the impeachment of a new liberal justice. Justice Janet Protasiewicz's ascension to the Wisconsin Supreme Court created a new 4-3 liberal majority, jeopardizing Republican-drawn state legislative maps and risking the repeal of a 173-year-old state