Republicans think they have a winning argument to turn out voters in Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court race: their majority in Congress.
It may seem odd that a state judicial race would have anything to do with Republicans’ razor-thin margins in the House, plus there’s currently no pending litigation concerning the state’s congressional maps that would impact how many members are sent to Washington.
But after the court flipped to liberals in 2023, it threw out the state’s Republican-drawn Assembly and Senate maps, and forced the governor and legislature to agree on new ones. Those maps are credited with giving Democrats solid wins down ballot last fall, and GOP lawmakers are now urgently framing the judicial race as the key to owning redistricting maps and keeping control of the lower chamber.