Tomorrow’s Supreme Court race isn’t for ideological control of the Court like the last two elections, but as Dan O’Donnell writes, it could mean liberals gain a 7-0 majority within three years.
Tomorrow’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election isn’t just another spring ballot race — it’s a potential turning point that could hand liberals a stranglehold on the state’s highest court for years to come.
Voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose between Court of Appeals Judge Maria Lazar, a principled conservative with a record of applying the law as written, and Judge Chris Taylor, a former Democrat Assembly member and Planned Parenthood policy director whose sole purpose in running is to advance liberal policy from the bench.
While the current 4-3 liberal majority on the court wouldn’t flip with a Taylor victory, the long-term stakes are enormous. A win for the left would set the stage for something far more dangerous: a 7-0 liberal monopoly by 2029.
Here’s how this nightmare scenario would unfold over the next four Supreme Court races: Taylor’s election would push their majority to 5-2. Next year, in the 2027 race to replace retiring conservative Justice Annette Ziegler, the left could capture an open seat and expand to 6-1. In 2028, they would defend liberal Justice Rebecca Dallet’s seat. Then, in 2029, they would target conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn, who won by just 6,000 votes statewide in 2019.
Four straight opportunities, two open seats, one well-funded liberal incumbent, and an alleged conservative who has alienated most of his own voter base with left-leaning rulings in major cases. The math is as simple as it is alarming. One more flip tomorrow paves the way for a unanimous liberal Supreme Court by the end of the decade.
That outcome would be catastrophic for common-sense governance here. A 7-0 liberal court would almost certainly ram through activist rulings and stymie any legislation a Governor Tom Tiffany were to push through should he win November’s election.
Conservatives have fought for decades to elect and preserve a court that respects separation of powers and the will of elected representatives. Lazar embodies that tradition: experienced, independent, and committed to textualism over personal ideology. Taylor represents the opposite: a career activist who would eschew the Rule of Law for her own personal policy preferences.
Wisconsinites cannot afford complacency. Low-turnout spring elections have swung on razor-thin margins before. If conservatives sit this one out, the left’s machine—flush with out-of-state cash and motivated by the dream of total control—will tip over the first domino in locking in liberal rule for a generation or more.
Tomorrow’s vote will be felt for decades, so it’s important to stop the left’s march toward a unanimous Court before it starts.
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