Turn Wisconsin blue - VOTE Judge Jill Karofsky for #Wisconsin Supreme Court

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Here's how we beat Scott Walker's hand-picked judge next month and turn Wisconsin blue


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/13/1926863/-Here-s-how-we-beat-Scott-Walker-s-hand-picked-judge-next-month-and-turn-Wisconsin-blue
David Nir for Daily Kos Elections

Friday March 13, 2020 · 10:45 AM CDT

Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jill Karofsky
Judge Jill Karofsky




Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell have spent the last several years engineering a hostile takeover of the federal judiciary, granting lifetime tenure to dozens of 40-something far-right ideologues who will gleefully greenlight every facet of the conservative agenda, from eviscerating abortion rights to suppressing the vote.

But there’s one critical venue where we can fight back: state supreme courts. Republicans would like to bend these powerful bodies to their will, too, but we can stop them. That’s why Daily Kos is proud to endorse Judge Jill Karofsky in the April 7 election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The stakes in this race are huge. Karofsky is challenging incumbent Justice Dan Kelly, who was hand-picked in 2016 by none other than Scott Walker. He’s been endorsed by Trump, anti-abortion groups, and the NRA. He also served as an adviser to the conservative legal group that’s currently waging a fight to force the state to purge over 200,000 voters from the rolls.

Please give $3 now to oust Trump’s pet judge in swing-state Wisconsin!

In short, he’s a Republican dreamboat. With his help, the high court will do whatever it can to undermine environmental regulations, give its approval to extreme GOP gerrymanders, attack the rights of LGBTQ people, roll back reproductive freedoms, weaken protections for workers … the conservative wishlist is too long to list in its entirety, but you can be certain Kelly will gladly smooth its path.

Karofsky, however, couldn’t be more different. She’s a fair-minded, independent jurist who, prior to being elected a trial court judge in Dane County in 2017, spent years as an advocate for victims. While serving in the state attorney general’s office, she was the first person specifically tasked with ensuring that prosecutors around the state had the resources and training necessary to bring cases against perpetrators of violence against women.

She has the support of top Wisconsin Democrats such as Sen. Tammy Baldwin and former Sen. Russ Feingold; a wide array of unions, including AFSCME and the SEIU; and progressive organizations like Planned Parenthood. She’s also an ultra-marathoner and has completed multiple Ironman competitions, so you know she has the strength and energy to win.

But she also needs cash, because Republican dark-money groups are going to spend whatever it takes to preserve the Supreme Court’s conservative majority. To best help Karofsky, we’re raising money for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, which has called all hands on deck for this race. The party has promised us that 100% of the funds the Daily Kos community gives between now and the election will be used to fund their Supreme Court election efforts.

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