{"id":2402119,"date":"2025-02-13T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-money-leftists-look-to-buy-another-wi-supreme-court-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T07:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:26:01","slug":"big-money-leftists-look-to-buy-another-wi-supreme-court-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-money-leftists-look-to-buy-another-wi-supreme-court-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Money Leftists Look To Buy Another WI Supreme Court Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbig-money-leftists-look-to-buy-another-wi-supreme-court-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2402119&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In 2023, a highly contentious and record-breaking judicial race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court saw significant funding from leftist groups, surpassing $50 million.Judge Janet Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee liberal, raised over $17 million for her campaign, \u200bprimarily from the\u2062 Democratic Party, vastly outpacing her opponent, conservative Dan Kelly. \u200cThe left&#8217;s\u200b investment paid off as Protasiewicz became a key liberal justice on the court, which\u200b holds a 4-3 liberal majority, and played \u200ba\u200b crucial role in reversing prior court rulings\u2064 regarding\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-urge-dismissal-of-doj-lawsuit-against-georgia-election-law\/\" title=\"House ...s Urge Dismissal Of DOJ Lawsuit Against Georgia Election Law\">absentee ballot drop boxes<\/a> in wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>As the state prepares\u200c for another crucial \u2062Supreme Court race, \u2064campaigning for Judge Susan Crawford against conservative Brad Schimel, significant donations continue to flow. The left has garnered substantial support from prominent donors such as George Soros and J.B. Pritzker, with Crawford raising nearly \u200ddouble what Schimel has managed so far. Despite Wisconsin\u2019s campaign finance laws limiting individual\u2063 contributions, party donations remain unlimited, allowing large sums to \u200dinfluence the race. <\/p>\n<p>Schimel&#8217;s campaign points to \u200doutside money\u2064 and support for Crawford and\u200b raises \u200bconcerns about the potential liberal influence on \u200dthe court, especially regarding issues such as abortion rights and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tyler-perry-calls-on-doj-to-investigate-georgia-likens-voter-integrity-law-to-jim-crow\/\" title=\"Tyler Perry Calls On DOJ To Investigate Georgia, Likens Voter Integrity Law To \u2018Jim Crow\u2019\">voter integrity laws<\/a>. \u200dWith the election scheduled soon, the disparity in \u2062fundraising \u2063and support between the candidates has become a focal point for both sides, with many conservatives alarmed\u2064 that failure\u200d to\u2064 mobilize could result in\u2062 enduring liberal control over the court.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 2023, big-money leftists spent a fortune buying a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. At north of $50 million in spending, the race to determine whether liberals or conservatives would control the Badger State&rsquo;s highest court was by far the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-stakes-wisconsin-supreme-court-race-may-determine-future-of-abortion-laws\/\" title=\"High-Stakes ... ... May Determine Future of Abortion Laws\">expensive state judicial race<\/a> in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>That record is about to be shattered, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cfis.wi.gov\/Public\/Registration.aspx?page=FiledReports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign finance reports<\/a> from the combatants in the latest battle for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And some of the biggest sugar daddies &mdash; and mamas &mdash; in leftist politics are again making it rain cash on a pivotal state court race with national implications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Left in Control&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Of the approximately $51 million dumped into 2023&rsquo;s election, Milwaukee liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz&rsquo;s campaign raised $17.44 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisdc.org\/news\/press-releases\/139-press-release-2023\/7351-protasiewicz-received-2-of-every-3-from-democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">much of it<\/a> from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisdc.org\/news\/press-releases\/139-press-release-2023\/7390-wisconsin-supreme-court-race-cost-record-51m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">review <\/a>by the left-leaning Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. Another estimate by Wispolitics tracked more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2023\/wispolitics-tracks-56-million-in-spending-on-wisconsin-supreme-court-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$56 million<\/a> in spending. Protasiewicz outraised her competitor, former conservative Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, by more than 4 1\/2 times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leftists got what they paid for.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Protasiewicz has, to no one&rsquo;s surprise, turned out to be a dutiful leftist justice on a seven-member court on which liberals hold a narrow 4-3 majority. Perhaps most notably, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/08\/leftists-get-what-they-paid-for-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-flip-flop-allowing-ballot-drop-boxes\/\">in July<\/a> the Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a previous ruling and endorsed the widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes. The ruling came with plenty of time for November&rsquo;s presidential election, opening the door to the same kinds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections\/dp\/168451259X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspect practices<\/a> that plagued the Badger State in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk noted as much last month when he weighed in on Wisconsin&rsquo;s latest costly Supreme Court race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Very important to vote Republican for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to prevent voting fraud!&rdquo; Musk wrote on X, referring to the April election pitting <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.danecounty.gov\/Judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Madison liberal Judge Susan Crawford<\/a> against conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waukeshacounty.gov\/CircuitCourts\/CourtOfficials\/brad-d-schimel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel,<\/a> who previously served as Wisconsin&rsquo;s attorney general.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Democrats whined about multibillionaire Musk, President Trump&rsquo;s director of the DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), entering the state court fray. The SpaceX founder gave north of $250 million to committees supporting Trump, and he contributed $2 million to elect conservative judges in his home state of Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-texas-donations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> The New York Times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the latest fundraising figures show the race is generating lots of cash from big billionaire leftists. Musk&rsquo;s money, to date, is nowhere to be found.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>George, Reid, J.B. Cut Hefty Checks<\/h2>\n<p>Crawford&rsquo;s campaign took in nearly $4.47 million between the first of the year and Feb. 3, according to her pre-primary <a href=\"https:\/\/cfis.wi.gov\/ReportsOutputFiles\/0105906SpringPre-Primary2025ab059210202561520PMGAB2Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign finance report<\/a>. A good chunk of that, $2 million, came from the state Democratic Party &mdash; thanks to a $1 million donation from socialist megadonor George Soros and a half million dollars from morbidly obese Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Super leftist LinkedIn cofounder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/reid-hoffman-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reid Hoffman<\/a> cut a <a href=\"https:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2025\/feb\/11\/political-parties-megadonors-drop-money-on-wiscons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$250,000 check<\/a> to the state Dems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The party previously donated $1 million to Crawford&rsquo;s cause.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The liberal&rsquo;s campaign haul in the latest reporting period was nearly double that of Schimel&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cfis.wi.gov\/ReportsOutputFiles\/0104385SpringPre-Primary20256f1c8210202590212PMGAB2Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2.71 million raised<\/a>, according to the initial reports. After the period closed, Crawford <a href=\"https:\/\/cfis.wi.gov\/Public\/Registration.aspx?page=FiledReports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> taking in another $577,735. The Schimel campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/cfis.wi.gov\/Public\/Registration.aspx?page=FiledReports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> receiving another $244,830.89 in the 72-hour period following the deadline. Both campaigns are outpacing fundraising totals at the same time in the April 2023 state Supreme Court race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin campaign finance laws limit maximum individual contributions to $20,000, but allow unlimited contributions to parties. Crawford&rsquo;s campaign raked in 12 maximum contributions, including $20,000 donations from Colorado billionaire and liberal activist Pat Stryker and <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Molly_Munger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Molly Munger<\/a>, a Pasadena, Calif., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/national-international\/molly-munger-tom-steyer-jerry-brown-secret-boss-artie-samish-california\/1927166\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attorney and deep-pocketed<\/a> leading advocate behind <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/California_Proposition_38,_State_Income_Tax_Increase_for_Education_Funding_Initiative_(2012)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proposition 38<\/a>, a failed massive tax increase for California&rsquo;s public schools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&rsquo;ll find lots of big-cash donations from Big Labor, including $18,000 contributions from the National Education Association Fund for Children and Public Education, SEIU Wisconsin State Council 33, and the Teamsters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Schimel&rsquo;s campaign recorded seven maximum donations, including a $20,000 contribution from Beloit businesswoman Diane Hendricks, as well as Madison businessman Eric Hovde, a Republican who narrowly lost Wisconsin&rsquo;s Senate race in November to incumbent Madison Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Hendricks also contributed $975,000 to the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and Illinois businesswoman Liz Uihlein&nbsp;donated $650,000 to the state GOP, which in turn pumped $1.675 million into Schimel&rsquo;s campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Where Are the Donors&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Musk&rsquo;s X post last month effectively urging Wisconsin voters to cast their ballots for Schimel was in response to conservative activist Scott Presler&rsquo;s post raising red flags that &ldquo;history is going to repeat itself.&rdquo; He noted conservatives have the chance to take back control of the court in the April 1 election, but worried that right-of-center voters and donors aren&rsquo;t taking the race seriously.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Where are the donors? Where are the door knockers? Where are the influencers? Where is the support?,&rdquo; he asked. &ldquo;Unless people step up to take action &amp; do it quickly, the Court will stay under liberal control.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m afraid history is going to repeat itself.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, conservatives controlled the Wisconsin Supreme Court 4&#128997;-3&#128998;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, liberal Janet Protasiewicz won the Spring election &amp; flipped the Court to 4&#128998;-3&#128997;.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what happened?<\/p>\n<p>By July 2024, the liberal Court&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2XbwPVuABV\">pic.twitter.com\/2XbwPVuABV<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottPresler\/status\/1882136313744556245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>With less than seven weeks until the election, Schimel&rsquo;s donors definitely aren&rsquo;t keeping up with Crawford&rsquo;s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In total, Crawford&rsquo;s campaign has raised more than $7.7 million since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crawfordforwi.com\/news\/judge-susan-crawford-launches-campaign-for-wisconsin-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launching <\/a>in June. Schimel has taken in more than $5 million since entering the race in late 2023. That&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/schimelforjustice.com\/schimel-for-justice-campaign-announces-historic-5-million-raised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">27 times greater<\/a> than the last conservative candidate raised over the same period in the 2023 race, but Schimel&rsquo;s fundraising totals lag behind Crawford&rsquo;s by more than $2.5 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Crawford camp apparently felt good enough about its cash position to run $346,000 in campaign ads Sunday before, during, and after the Super Bowl in four Wisconsin TV markets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/flush-cash-susan-crawford-campaign-174425886.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Schimel&rsquo;s campaign spent $13,455 on several commercials that ran during Super Bowl pre-game programming in Milwaukee and Madison, the newspaper reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Outside Interests<\/h2>\n<p>And there&rsquo;s a whole lot of money flooding in from outside the Badger State. In a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2025\/crawford-campaign-announces-raising-historic-7-3-million-total-4-4-million-in-recent-reporting-period\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> press release<\/a> boasting about her haul, Crawford insisted her campaign is driven by &ldquo;grassroots supporters from all 72 counties.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While 97 percent of Schimel&rsquo;s campaign donors live in Wisconsin, a review of the records shows 45 percent of Crawford&rsquo;s 16,639 donors live outside the Badger State. As Schimel noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2025\/judge-schimel-george-soros-war-on-law-and-order-comes-to-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign press release<\/a>, &ldquo;Soros, Pritzker, and Hoffman&rsquo;s cash accounted for over 40 percent of the $4 million in individual contributions received by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin this past month.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dangerous out-of-state Billionaires from across the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">country funneled historic sums<\/a> to her efforts to serve as the next liberal rubber stamp on Wisconsin&rsquo;s Supreme Court,&rdquo; the conservative candidate said in the release. &ldquo;George Soros, a billionaire notorious for funding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/platform.gulfpartyline.com\/email\/go?c=75988&amp;s=E579AEAE-6DEB-4F7D-9FCD-4A7903D3A162&amp;u=69931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defund-the-police organizations<\/a>, groups deadset on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/platform.gulfpartyline.com\/email\/go?c=75988&amp;s=E579AEAE-6DEB-4F7D-9FCD-4A7903D3A162&amp;u=69932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abolishing ICE<\/a>, and activists fighting to allow&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/platform.gulfpartyline.com\/email\/go?c=75988&amp;s=E579AEAE-6DEB-4F7D-9FCD-4A7903D3A162&amp;u=69933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">men in women&rsquo;s sports<\/a>, dumped $1,000,000 into the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>True Blue Leftist&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>The Crawford campaign did not return The Federalist&rsquo;s request for comment. When she launched her campaign, the Madison liberal said she was running &ldquo;to protect the basic rights and freedoms of Wisconsinites under our Constitution.&rdquo; She added that those rights are &ldquo;threatened by an all-out effort to politicize the court to drive a right-wing agenda.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Crawford doesn&rsquo;t seem all that concerned about the unborn&rsquo;s right to life. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2025\/02\/12\/wisconsin-supreme-court-candidates-share-contrasting-views-on-abortion\/78304269007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the U.S. 2022 Supreme Court ruling overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was &ldquo;wrong&rdquo; and that she found it &ldquo;really disappointing&rdquo; that the high court would &ldquo;take up a 50-year vested, constitutional right and toss it aside so that young women like my daughter don&rsquo;t have the same rights and protections that I had when I was her age.&rdquo; Schimel has been an unabashed defender of pro-life laws.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crawford is whole-heartedly <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.stateaffairs.com\/wi\/press-releases\/planned-parenthood-advocates-of-wisconsin-endorses-judge-susan-crawford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed<\/a> by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, the leading player in the abortion-on-demand industry. As an attorney, Crawford represented Planned Parenthood in a lawsuit against a law limiting abortions. The court in November heard oral arguments on a state law restricting abortions in most cases. The four liberal justices in no uncertain terms<a href=\"https:\/\/statecourtreport.org\/our-work\/analysis-opinion\/wisconsin-justices-appear-hostile-175-year-old-abortion-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> expressed their hostility<\/a> to the 1849 law, that went into effect following the end of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As an attorney, Crawford represented the leftist League of Women Voters in its <a href=\"https:\/\/wcca.wicourts.gov\/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2011CV004669&amp;countyNo=13&amp;index=0#parties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed attempt<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinesbach.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/league-proper-to-bring-voter-id-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kill Wisconsin&rsquo;s popular voter ID law<\/a>. She called the election integrity law &ldquo;draconian.&rdquo; Crawford found initial success in a liberal Dane County Court, but the conservative-led Supreme Court at the time<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/politics\/supreme-court-upholds-voter-id-law-though-injunction-will-remain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> eventually upheld voter ID.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And Crawford was featured at a<a href=\"https:\/\/pbswisconsin.org\/news-item\/republicans-criticize-crawford-for-attending-democratic-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> fundraiser with Dem donors<\/a> billed as a &ldquo;Chance to put two more House seats in play for 2026.&rdquo; The Wisconsin Supreme Court under liberal control has signed off on <a href=\"https:\/\/pbswisconsin.org\/news-item\/wisconsin-supreme-court-orders-new-legislative-maps-in-redistricting-case-brought-by-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political maps<\/a> favoring Democrats, and Crawford seems amenable to greater Dem benefits if elected to a 10-year term on the bench. And guess who reportedly organized the fundraising mixer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/wisconsin-supreme-court-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the<\/a> New York Times: Reid Hoffman and Democratic Party of Wisconsin chairman Ben Wikler. Obama administration attorney general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2025\/schimel-campaign-damning-susan-crawford-promises-donors-congressional-seats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eric Holder,<\/a> who chairs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, was expected to be at the event. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Much is at stake in Wisconsin&rsquo;s spring Supreme Court election. Not surprisingly, big outside liberal money again is flooding the race. And the left expects significant return on its investment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, leftists spent over $50 million for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2402120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-1.21.24-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50312,6571,5965,37194,33712],"class_list":["post-2402119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-big-money","tag-elections","tag-leftists","tag-political-influence","tag-wisconsin-supreme-court"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-1.21.24-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402123,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402119\/revisions\/2402123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}