I’m a little unplugged for this last few weeks of news cycles. What does it mean for the liberal judge winning ? I know the money and attention thrown at this was bigger than norm
Yeah, Tesla has an upcoming court case here in WI, so ol Elon pumped 22 million into this race to get someone on the bench he thought would rule in his favor.
For us liberals, having Crawford win is significant because there’s an upcoming abortion case. The conservative side feels that with
Roe struck down, an old 1849 law banning abortion should rightfully take effect, and the other side of course disagrees. I don’t know how the court will vote of course, but for us we want a liberal-majority court to hopefully protect a woman’s right to choose in our state.
We don’t have any current electoral map cases coming up, but it could happen. We are still trying to unfuck ourselves from the maps created by Republicans in 2010 that made us the worst gerrymandered state in the country. We made major progress with that last year, when a liberal justice also won a Supreme Court election (our terms are such that we’ll be having one of those Supreme Court elections every year for the next several years). That win gave us the first liberal majority on the court since 2008, which is of course significant for us.
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For real tho, not sure how anyone can vote for people who oppose voter ID... Actually I guess it'd be quite easy.
I did find it quite easy! I voted against the voter ID amendment, and until legislatures figure out a way to supply a 100% free ID to every registered voter, I will continue to oppose these laws because they are designed to suppress certain voters.
We already have a voter ID law here. They wanted to add it to the Constitution because as it stood. If the Republican-controlled legislature passed some fucked up voter ID criteria, we could challenge it as being unconstitutional. But if you specifically put in the Constitution with the caveat that it is “subject to exceptions which may be established by law,” as it says—well that makes it much easier for them to pass fucked up laws to suppress certain typ s of voters and much more difficult for us to challenge it.