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Janet Claire Protasiewicz (/ ˌ p r oʊ t ə ˈ s eɪ w ɪ t s /; proh-tə-SAY-wits; born December 3, 1962) is an American attorney and jurist from Wisconsin who has served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since August 2023.
The 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Milwaukee County circuit judge Janet Protasiewicz defeated former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Daniel Kelly, effectively flipping the ideological balance of the court from a conservative to liberal majority.
In 1853, a separate Wisconsin Supreme Court was created with all members elected state-wide. Initially the court was three members; it grew to five justices in 1878, and to its current size of seven seats in 1907.
Ellen Brostrom, Milwaukee County circuit judge and Roggensack's daughter, opined an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel criticizing Kelly's fitness to serve on the court and endorsing Janet Protasiewicz. [31] Following his loss to Protasiewicz, Kelly refused to call Protasiewicz to formally concede the race.
Justice Janet Protasiewicz won April’s hard-fought election over conservative Dan Kelly by 11 points — a virtual landslide in the closely divided state — giving liberals a 4-3 majority on ...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the highest and final court of appeals in the state judicial system of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.In addition to hearing appeals of lower Wisconsin court decisions, the Wisconsin Supreme Court also has the option to take original jurisdiction of cases, and serves as a regulator and administrator of judicial conduct and the practice of law in Wisconsin.
Threatened impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz (2023) [ edit ] Within days of her election in April 2023 , [ 12 ] and increasing in August 2023 (the month she took office, and before she had even heard a single case), notable Republicans in Wisconsin—including State Assembly speaker Robin Vos and former governor Scott ...
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for voters to be able to return absentee ballots through drop boxes, with the court's new liberal majority ...