Wisconsin Union Law’s Future May Hinge on High Court Election
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Wisconsin voters will elect a Supreme Court justice today in a race that has become a proxy for the battle over Republican Governor Scott Walker’s law curbing collective bargaining for public unions.
Groups inside and outside the state are pouring money into the nonpartisan contest between Justice David T. Prosser Jr. and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg, an assistant state attorney general. The outcome may shift the court’s ideological balance and determine how a legal challenge to the Wisconsin law is decided, said Mordecai Lee, who teaches government at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.