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Today in Wisconsin, there's an election with seismic stakes.

It's for a seat on the state Supreme Court where conservatives hold a four to three majority.

The reason this race is so important is because Wisconsin is also a state where a democratic

governor and a Republican supermajority in the legislature are constantly tossing disagreements

to the state Supreme Court.

Justices on that bench have essentially become the arbiters on issues from absentee voting to

public health emergencies to upholding the 2020 presidential election results.

If you live there and you own a TV, you might have noticed some rather intense advertisements

for what might usually be a quiet, off-year electoral race.

Slate senior writer on courts in the law, Mark Joseph Stern, told me about this $45 million blitz.

Wisconsinites are getting flooded with these ads that are ostensibly for an independent and

nonpartisan position on the Supreme Court, but that certainly have a political valence and both

of the judges to some degree are wrestling with how much of their political views they want to

put out there for the public to absorb and vote on. It turns out they want to say quite a bit about

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