Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate
Susan Crawford won the race for a seat on the Wisconsin supreme court on Tuesday, a major win for Democrats who had framed the race as a referendum on Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s popularity.
Crawford, a liberal judge from Dane county, defeated Brad Schimel, a former Republican attorney general and conservative judge from Waukesha county, after Musk and groups associated with the tech billionaire spent millions to boost his candidacy in what became the most expensive judicial contest in American history.
“Today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy,” Crawford said in a speech at her victory night event in Madison. “Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale.” […]
Musk said hours after the result that “The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary” and that the most important thing was that a vote on the addition of voter ID requirements passed.
The long con of the right, on the hand, would appear to be corruption of the voters; Edolf has been offering money to people signing petitions against “activist judges”, and, more notoriously, a million dollars to people voting for this Schimel guy (who, to give due credit, seems to have taken the result in good grace and told his unhappy fans to accept it). Which is illegal, but also wasn’t enough anyway. It’s a small victory against the Right—Musk was trying to hype it up as crucial to the future of civilisation itself, which is fucking absurd—but let’s take it…
