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Ben Wikler: “The state Supreme Court has operated for or had operated for…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 01:26

So the 2028 presidential election that the Senate majority in 28, the House majority in 26 and 28, all those things depend on what happens in this one state. And The state Supreme Court has operated for or had operated for 15 years under Republican majorities as rubber stamp for whatever MAGA billionaires wanted it to do. Now that ended in 2023 in the most expensive election judicial election in American political history when Janet Protostewitz defeated Dan Kelly. We won a pro democracy majority on the state Supreme Court. (01:26–01:37)

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Asserts that Wisconsin's Supreme Court was a rubber stamp for Republican interests for 15 years.

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