Editorial: The most important vote on Tuesday is for Chris Taylor (D)
We’ve heard it said that the 2026 Wisconsin Supreme Court is less consequential than contests in previous years when the ideological balance of the court was at stake. We take a different view. This year’s election offers Wisconsinites an important opportunity to reject the cynical partisanship of the past by electing Appeals Court Judge Chris Taylor to the high court bench.
Voters should seize it.
Former Gov. Scott Walker created a crisis on the court during his tenure from 2011 to 2019. Just as Donald Trump depends today on a pliant U.S. Supreme Court to do his bidding, so Walker and his cronies relied on right-wing judicial activists — who made up the court majority during his tenure and in its immediate aftermath — to upend the rule of law in Wisconsin.
Voters recognized the crisis and reclaimed the court from the extremists by electing Justices Rebecca Dallet, Jill Karofsky, Janet Protasiewicz and Susan Crawford. In election and after election, voters have replaced Walker appointees and apologists with jurists who respected their oaths to “support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Wisconsin.”
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