The April 1st Wisconsin Supreme Court election will once again bring the balance of court power to the balance of its own after the 2023 election in the state. Liberal Janet Protesiewitz defeated conservative candidate Dan Kelly to reverse the balance of the majority liberal courts, 4-3.
“I tried to warn people in 2023, and here's what I'm saying. If Wisconsinians don't pay attention to this race, history will repeat itself and you'll be able to keep this court under Democrat control,” Scott Pressler told Breitbart News.
in retirement Liberal Justice Anne Walsh Bradley's conservatives see this race as an opportunity to regain the majority, while Democrats see it as an opportunity to push forward with policies and redraw legislative maps that could ultimately lose Republicans. Help Democrats are approaching a slim majority of Republicans.
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Pressler, that Organization Early voting behavior works in swing state They register Republicans and encourage early voting, so while registering Republicans in states like Pennsylvania and New Jersey, they are gaining attention online for highly consequential races. The activist played A huge role He plans to flip Pennsylvania for President Donald Trump in 2024 and “work to win the Supreme Court elections” for two weeks.
“I was hoping to use my platform to get attention,” he said.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election is between a former conservative Wisconsin Attorney General and a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge. Brad Simel and Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawfordpreviously represented left-wing groups like Planned Parenthood as lawyers.
The 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court competition is expected to be even more expensive than the 2023 election, breaking national spending records for the $56 million judicial contest, resulting in massive out-of-state spending. In Wisconsin, state Supreme Court Justice serves a 10-year term. Although the corporate class is nonpartisan, both sides of the political aisle have received significant investment in election outcomes.
“There is no party affiliation in the courts, but we can all read between the lines,” Pressler says, calling Crawford a “radical, crazy leftist.”
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Pressler said one of the biggest influences of the race was that Crawford won and that Democrats could gerrymand the legislative district and hook two U.S. home seats from Republicans. That's the case with the crosshairs It is currently being held in the First Congressional District of Southeast Wisconsin by Rep. Brian Steele (R-WI) and Rep. Derrick Van Olden (R-WI) of the Third Congressal District of the Battlefield West.
The Democratic view of DC's path to power on race is not mere speculation, it is publicly promoted. The email invitation obtained by Breitbart News has a subject line in a briefing between Democratic donor Crawford and Wisconsin Democratic chair Ben Wikler on January 13, stating “A chance to play two more house sheets in 2026.” Reid Hoffman's aides were especially helpful in organizing the events. New York Times It has been reported. Hoffman, a past visitor to Epstein Island, reportedly contributed to the race alongside other leftist billionaires.
“But by winning this race, the Democrats could potentially win two additional US home seats, half of the seats needed to gain control of the home in 2026,” the email reads.
A complaint was then filed against Crawford over the event email. This was sent by a nonprofit organization that works to increase voter turnout, known as the Democracy Focus. Crawford and her campaign denied cheating among Republicans View The incident was evidence that she made a “promise to sell Van Olden and Steele Congress seats.” Crawford's campaign has not returned any previous Breitbart News requests for comment.
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“It's not just the Wisconsin Supreme Court,” Pressler said. “It's potentially moving homes away from Republicans, which is why it's stolen President Trump from his ability to govern and legislate.”
Pressler, who already plans for the next presidential election, said the outcome of the Wisconsin Supreme Court's competition will even have “an impact of 2028.”
“I'm already working towards the presumptive presidential candidate JD Vance in 2028,” he said. “We don't stop at the work we do, so we recognize that these Supreme Court races will have an impact even in the next presidential election.”
“[Gov. Tony] Evers(d) is happening in 2026 so hello, there will also be a Wisconsin governor race in just two years,” he added.
Regarding the morale of Republican voters following Trump's 312 vote victory in November 2024, Pressler said he saw more enthusiasm and excitement than before the state's 2023 Supreme Court election.
“I always believe victory will bring victory. I think there's a much better chance of winning these off-year Supreme Court elections because of the 2024 victory,” he said.
“And the reason I say that is, when I look at 2023, people really had to get excited? 2022 was a terrible year. Kari Lake was defeated, we lost the governor in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and Governor Evers was re-elected. The morale was really low,” he said.
Trump's 2024 victory was, in particular, the second time a Republican presidential candidate has won a state in nearly 40 years. In both cases, Trump saw a narrow margin of victory, but he won more and more votes during all three presidential runs in the swing state. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton from 47.8% to 47%, bringing 1,405,284 votes to 1,382,536. In 2020, Biden won the state with a small margin of 49.4% to 48.8%, while Trump voted 1,610,184 more votes than 2016. In 2024, Trump won Wisconsin from 49.6% to 48.7% to 49.6% to 48.7%, earning 1,697,626 more votes than 2020.
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“I'd argue that it's moraleful just to go to the spring election and take over Donald Trump in three weeks. So this is a basic election,” he said. “If you kick out Trump voters, Brad Simel will become the next Supreme Court judge.”
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At the state level, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to hear several well-known cases, including challenges to the abortion restrictions of 1849 (currently pending by the court) and lawsuits against Wisconsin Act 10.
The integrity of elections is also concerning among conservatives like Pressler. Shortly after Protasiewicz was elected in 2023, the Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority notably rescinded the state's voting dropbox ban and urged Republican-controlled state legislatures to redraw the state's legislature and the state's Senate map. The April vote also includes an amendment that attempts to set the requirements for voter IDs in the state constitution.
February, Wisconsin Supreme Court of Liberalism Domination 4-3 Republican officials dismissed the case because they lacked a position to file a lawsuit in 2022 disputing the use of mobile voting vans in Racine. Republicans argued that vans purchased using grants from a nonprofit supported by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg could be used to violate and increase voter turnout in large democratic areas, and that future use could lead to voter fraud.
The court did not award the merits of the case, meaning that the voting van can be used again. I said They plan to use the van in April in light of the state Supreme Court's decision.
Naturally, Democrats and their media allies have come out of the gates that framble Wisconsin Supreme Court elections as a referendum on abortion, as well as all elections since the Supreme Court was overturned. Roev. Wade 2022. when Roev. Wade Wisconsin's abortion restrictions in 1849 came into effect but were put on hold in December 2023 and are expected to come to the state's High Court later this year.
Crawford refused to say how she controls the law, but she said in an interview that the government should not regulate abortions. According to In New York Times Headline article: “One of the biggest fights over abortion rights in 2025 has already begun.”
“As a woman, I believe I should make decisions with my doctor about my body and my health care,” she said. “I trust other women to make the same decision.”
Pressler argued that the Democratic approach was not consistent with what the majority of Americans actually worry about, and that it focused on restoring Simel's public safety and fairness to the state's high courts.
“I think people understand in this age of information, thanks to people like Elon Musk who really opened up a platform for free speech… Governments with USAID are really a big problem. Borders are a big problem. Inflation is a big problem. Having peace rather than war is a big problem. Deporting foreigners who are in states like Wisconsin is a big problem,” Pressler said. “So I'd argue that [with] Abortion, Democrats are trying to make it the best and top priority just like Kamala. [but] Ultimately, voters sense and feel a struggle that is far greater than abortion and has greater priorities in life. ”
Pressler pointed to the election as vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), as Democrats doubled their election strategy despite the results of 2024.
“Rabies anti-second amendment, and therefore anti-bound individual David Hogg, is quoted as saying he has no right to own a gun. That is, when it is the second amendment enshrined in the Constitution, there is nothing that can be said to be more anti-constitutional,” he said. “The Democrats elected him. They chose him, they voted for him, they're doubled. They're tripling. It seems like they've learned nothing from losing the popularity vote in 2024.”
“And actually, I'm celebrating this. I hope they continue to double the horrifying policies and ideology that allowed Donald Trump to win the popular vote in 2024,” he continued.
“Let your enemies do them when they're making mistakes,” he concluded.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on x @thekat_hamilton.
