In Wisconsin, a court that almost overturned Biden’s win flips to liberal control

By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court is flipping to liberal control for the first time in 15 years with the start of the term of a new justice who made abortion rights a focus of her winning campaign. Janet Protasiewicz will be sworn into office Tuesday with a ceremony in the state Capitol Rotunda. Her win carries tremendous weight in Wisconsin. It’s a battleground where the state Supreme Court has been the last word on some of the biggest political and policy battles of the past decade-plus. The conservative-controlled court came within one vote of overturning President Joe Biden’s narrow win in the state in 2020.