Editorial - Protasiewicz is the only qualified candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court
Amid all the hyperbole and disinformation, all the charges and countercharges, all the attack ads and smears circulating in the most expensive state Supreme Court race in history, it is easy to lose sight of what this amplified contest is all about.
So let’s turn off the television sets, look up from our phones and pause for a moment to consider the decision that Wisconsinites will be asked to make on April 4. Because Wisconsin elects its Supreme Court justices — as opposed to appointing them, as happens at the national level and in a number of other states — voters will fill a seat on the state’s highest court for a 10-year term.
Between now and 2033, the justice who is elected this spring will deal with hundreds of cases involving civil rights, civil liberties, the fairness of our elections, the character of state government and the balance of power between corporate power and working families.
What voters should be looking for is a justice who “gets” Wisconsin, who understands that this great state — for all the outside pressure to change it — is a distinct place, with distinct values. They should also be looking for a jurist with the experience, integrity and temperament to help form a high-court majority that rejects the judicial activism of partisans who are in the pocket of special interests that would undermine those values in pursuit of a rigid ideological agenda.
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