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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley announced Thursday that she will not activity different term, mounting up a high-stakes conflict for power of nan battleground state's highest court.
Bradley, who is portion of nan court's 4-3 wide majority, said she felt assured she could triumph a 4th 10-year word but that it was clip to "pass nan torch." Her word will extremity July 31, 2025.
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The predetermination for nan unfastened spot will beryllium held adjacent April. Brad Schimel, nan erstwhile Republican lawyer general, announced successful November that he plans to run.
FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley is seen during a nationalist hearing, Sept. 7, 2023, successful Madison, Wis. Bradley announced Thursday, April 11, 2024, that she will not activity different term, mounting up a high-stakes conflict for power of nan battleground state's highest court. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
The title was already expected to beryllium heated, but Bradley's departure makes it an unfastened race.
"My determination has not travel lightly," Bradley said successful a statement. "It is made aft observant information and reflection."
Liberals clasp a mostly acknowledgment to Janet Protasiewicz's victory successful 2023 complete erstwhile Justice Dan Kelly.
The tribunal has made respective cardinal rulings since liberals gained control, including a December determination overturning Republican-drawn maps of nan state's legislative districts.
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Abortion was besides a cardinal topic during Protasiewicz’s title and nan tribunal has since been asked to see 2 challenges to a decades-old authorities rule that conservatives person interpreted arsenic banning abortion.
