2025. BRAD SCHIMEL FOR SUPREME COURT. THE ANNOUNCEMENT THURSDAY BY FORMER REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL BRAD SCHIMEL THAT HE’S RUNNING FOR A STATE SUPREME COURT RACE IN 2025 IS TONIGHT SIGNALING THE NEW ERA IN WISCONSIN. SUPREME COURT RACES IS WE CAN’T WAIT TILL NEXT NOVEMBER TO START IT. I’M NOT TOTALLY SURPRISED JUST BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF JUDICIAL RACES. NOW, FORMER JUSTICE JANINE GESKE TODAY COMING OFF APRIL’S MOST EXPENSIVE STATE COURT RACE IN US HISTORY. WE DID IT JUSTICE. JANET PROTASIEWICZ TO WIN, FLIPPED THE COURT’S 4 TO 3 MAJORITY FROM CONSERVATIVE TO LIBERAL. AND IN 2025, THE COURT’S BALANCE WILL AGAIN BE AT STAKE. LIBERAL JUSTICE ANN WALSH. BRADLEY IS EXPECTED TO SEEK A FOURTH TEN YEAR TERM. RIGHT NOW, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THE PARTIES AND PEOPLE WITH POLITICAL INTERESTS WANT TO CONTROL WHO GETS ON THE COURT. AND SO I THINK THAT’S JUST GOING TO BRING IN THE MONEY. IS THAT A GOOD THING? NO, NO. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, PEOPLE JUST GENERALLY DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT THE JUDGES ARE NOT VOTING ON WHETHER THEY BELIEVE IN ABORTION OR THEY ARE AGAINST ABORTION OR THEY THEY LIKE REDISTRICTING OR DON’T. IT’S THEY’RE VERY TECHNICAL LEGAL ARGUMENTS. PROTASIEWICZ CAMPAIGNED ON HER VIEWS ON ABORTION AND CALLED THE STATE’S LEGISLATIVE MAPS RIGGED. HER CAMPAIGN’S GENERAL CONSULTANT SUNDAY ON UPFRONT WAS YOUR INTENT TO TURN THIS INTO A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN? ABSOLUTELY NOT. $10 MILLION FROM DEMOCRATS IN THE STATE. I MEAN, IT WAS A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, RIGHT? IT WAS A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. THE APRIL ELECTION WAS HISTORIC. AN ESTIMATED. $56 MILLION SPENT AND PREDICTIONS ARE 2025. COUL
Future of Wisconsin Supreme Court races could again bring record spending ahead of 2025
Former Attorney General Brad Schimel officially announced his bid last week
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Updated: 5:56 PM CST Dec 4, 2023
Former Republican Attorney General and current Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel announced his bid for Wisconsin Supreme Court last week, more than a year ahead of the April 2025 election. "With the presidential race and the U.S. Senate race sucking up all the oxygen for a good part of next year, we can't wait until next November to start," Schimel said during his announcement Thursday in Waukesha. Observers say the move solidifies a new chapter in Wisconsin Supreme Court races after April's most expensive state court race in U.S. history. "I'm not totally surprised just because the nature of judicial races now," Janine Geske, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, said. "Right now, it just seems like the parties, the people with the political interests, want to control who gets on the court, and so I think that's just going to bring in the money." Justice Janet Protasiewicz's win flipped the court's 4-3 majority from conservative to liberal. Sunday on UPFRONT, Protasiewicz's campaign general consultant Patrick Guarasci discussed the April race and looked ahead to 2025. The court's balance will again be at stake in 2025 when liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley's term is up, and she is widely expected to seek a fourth 10-year term on the bench.
MILWAUKEE — Former Republican Attorney General and current Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel announced his bid for Wisconsin Supreme Court last week, more than a year ahead of the April 2025 election.
"With the presidential race and the U.S. Senate race sucking up all the oxygen for a good part of next year, we can't wait until next November to start," Schimel said during his announcement Thursday in Waukesha.
Observers say the move solidifies a new chapter in Wisconsin Supreme Court races after April's most expensive state court race in U.S. history.
"I'm not totally surprised just because the nature of judicial races now," Janine Geske, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, said. "Right now, it just seems like the parties, the people with the political interests, want to control who gets on the court, and so I think that's just going to bring in the money."
Justice Janet Protasiewicz's win flipped the court's 4-3 majority from conservative to liberal.
Sunday on UPFRONT, Protasiewicz's campaign general consultant Patrick Guarasci discussed the April race and looked ahead to 2025.
The court's balance will again be at stake in 2025 when liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley's term is up, and she is widely expected to seek a fourth 10-year term on the bench.
