Wed Feb 22, 2023 – 10:06 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — One liberal and one conservative will advance to the April general election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, following the results of Tuesday’s primary election in the Dairy State.
Incumbent conservative Justice Patience Roggensack is retiring when her term expires on July 31, and four judges ran to succeed her: conservatives Jennifer Dorow and Daniel Kelly, and liberals Everett Mitchell and Janet Protasiewicz.
With 88 percent of the vote counted at 9:57 p.m. CST, Protasiewicz and Kelly were declared the winners. Protasiewicz, who won 46.2 percent of the vote, has been branded as a firmly pro-abortion candidate, with many of the ads supporting her focused on the issue.
Pro-Life Wisconsin and Wisconsin Family Action both endorsed Kelly, arguing that his previous tenure on the state’s highest court made him more of a certainty to rule from a textualist perspective.
Kelly received 24.3 percent of the vote, which when combined with Dorow’s 21.9 percent makes for a combined conservative/Republican vote of 46.2 percent. The other liberal candidate, Mitchell, received 7.5 percent, meaning conservative activists will have to work to improve messaging and turnout if they want to prevail
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