Wisconsinites headed to the polls Tuesday to vote on two important matters: 1. Who will be the next justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court? 2. Whether or not to enshrine its 2011 voter ID law as an amendment in the state constitution. And the results are now in. 

Despite the last-minute push from Republicans, conservative Brad Schimel has lost to liberal Susan Crawford. 

The battle between conservative Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel and liberal Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford to replace retiring Justice Ann Walsh Bradley has been anything but your normal off-year election. Billionaires from both sides of the political spectrum—think Elon Musk on the right, George Soros on the left—spent millions of dollars on the race, as Republicans sought to secure a conservative majority on the court and Democrats looked to stop their free fall in the age of Trump 2.0.

On a brighter note for all those who value fair elections, Wisconsinites voted in favor of an amendment to the state constitution that will permanently enshrine the state's 2011 law requiring voters to provide personal identification in order to vote.

This, on its face, is an important step in ensuring fair elections in the state, but the matter became that much more serious due to the fact that Susan Crawford spent part of her legal career trying to undo the law. 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court race could have national implications, with issues like gerrymandering, election integrity, and abortion hinging on the ideological makeup of the court. Of concern to the Republicans was the possibility of redrawn congressional boundaries negatively affecting their already slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats, for their part, would love nothing more than to have another judicial cudgel to wield against the Trump agenda, so the Crawford win could mean their stable of activist judges will now grow even larger.

President Trump won Wisconsin by less than 1 percent in 2024.

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