On this edition of Your Call, we discuss last night’s progressive victory in Wisconsin. Wisconsin voters flipped majority control on the state’s Supreme Court from conservative to liberal for the first time since 2008. It was a huge victory for Judge Janet Protasiewicz. The pro-choice judge won by 10 points.
As today’s guest Ari Berman reports, last night’s results will give progressives their best—and perhaps only—chance to roll back the GOP’s decade-plus efforts to undermine democracy in the state, like the heavily gerrymandered maps that have locked in enormous Republican majorities in the legislature and a series of laws that have made it harder to vote.
Later in the show, we’ll look at the makeup of judges across the country. President Biden has appointed 105 federal judges, outpacing Trump, Obama, and Bush, according to ABC.
Guests:
Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones, Type Media fellow, and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Jake Faleschini, legal director of state courts and program director for justice at Alliance for Justice
Web Resources:
Mother Jones: Progressives Win a Majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
CNN: Liberal judge’s victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court race marks political shift in key swing state
Wisconsin Public Radio: What the Wisconsin Supreme Court race could mean for the state's Republican-drawn redistricting maps
The 19th: Conservatives lose control of Wisconsin Supreme Court ahead of likely decision on abortion
CBS News: Why Wisconsin's Supreme Court race was the most expensive election of its kind ever
ABC News: Biden has appointed 105 federal judges, outpacing Trump, Obama and Bush
