The razor-thin Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives could hinge on the outcome of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election set for April 1 between Republican-supported candidate Brad Schimel and Democrat-backed candidate Susan Crawford.
Elections for the highest court in the Badger State are officially nonpartisan, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court has seven justices, and the election is to replace outgoing liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. The remaining six seats on the court are evenly split among conservatives and liberals; meaning, the outcome of the race likely will determine the ideological balance of the court going forward.
The Daily Signal spoke with Steve Cortes, a senior political adviser at CatholicVote, a political advocacy organization involved in the Wisconsin race. He pointed to what the Wisconsin Supreme Court may do to affect the…
