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On Monday, Sept. 11, Tim Burns — a former liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate — filed a petition seeking to stop impeachment proceedings against Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
On Monday, Sept. 11, a five-person Wisconsin Senate committee voted 3-1, along party lines, to move the nomination of Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) administrator Meagan Wolfe to the Senate floor.
On Tuesday, Sept. 5, a Wisconsin judge ruled that the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s use of a federal voter registration form — known as the National Mail Voter Registration Form — violates Wisconsin law.
On Tuesday, Aug. 29, the Wisconsin Senate Elections Committee held a hearing on whether or not to reappoint the state’s top election official, Meagan Wolfe, a nonpartisan appointee who has led the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) since 2019.
On Friday, Aug. 4, the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) unanimously approved changes to the state’s absentee ballot certification envelope that are intended to improve the mail-in process for voters and to better ensure that voters’ ballots are counted.
On Friday, Aug. 4, a group of Wisconsin-based mathematicians and computer scientists filed a petition in the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state’s legislative districts.
On Tuesday, Aug. 2, Wisconsin voters filed a petition in the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state’s legislative districts for being extreme partisan gerrymanders that unduly favor Republicans.
On Thursday, July 20, Priorities USA, the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans and a voter filed a lawsuit challenging three separate rules regulating absentee voting procedures in Wisconsin.
On Tuesday, April 4, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz, the liberal candidate in the race, won the race for the open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, Judge Janet Protasiewicz and former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly advanced out of a nonpartisan primary election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.