The liberal candidate for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court isn't backing down from her support for abortion rights or her belief that the state's Republican-drawn legislative maps are unfair.
or her belief that the state's Republican-drawn legislative maps are unfair during a debate Tuesday in which her GOP-backed opponent accused her of being “bought and paid for” by Democrats.
Whoever wins the April 4 election for a seat vacated by the retirement of a conservative justice will determine majority control of the court for at least the next two years, including leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Control of the court, which came within a vote of overturning Trump's 2020 defeat in the state, could be crucial, with, legislative redistricting, voting rights and other key issues at stake.
Protasiewicz has focused her candidacy on her support for abortion rights, stopping just short of saying how she would rule on a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion ban first passed in 1849 — a year after statehood. She reiterated Tuesday that she hadn't made up her mind on how she would rule, but she said Kelly had.
Kelly defended his support from the state's three largest anti-abortion groups and said he made no pledge to them to uphold the ban, as Protasiewicz has alleged.
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