The Dobbs Effect In Seismic Shift for Wisconsin and the Nation Progressives attain Majority on State Supreme Court

( Wisconsin Examiner) – As Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz took the stage at her election victory party Tuesday night, the three current members of the liberal minority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court watched from off stage, arm-in-arm, as they took in the moment they became a majority. Protasiewicz, a liberal, handily beat conservative former Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly on Tuesday for a vacant seat on the court. Her win marks a massive change in Wisconsin’s political landscape that is likely to upend the state’s heavily gerrymandered political maps as well as its recently reinstated 19th-century criminal ban on…