Daniel Kelly is in the fight of his life. As a prosecutor and judge, Karofsky has focused on protecting the vulnerable, particularly those subjected to domestic violence and sexual assault crimes. She passionately advocates for criminal justice reform.
Alternatively, the incumbent, Kelly, is a right-wing extremist who has been enthusiastically endorsed by Donald Trump for overwhelmingly dispensing judgments in a partisan manner, even overturning precedent. It was this right-wing court that infamously carried out Walker’s plan to gut union bargaining rights.
Worst of all, this judicial election has national consequences, because Trump and his cronies are proposing a monumental purge of Wisconsin voters using suspect data. If Kelly wins, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will no doubt allow the suppression of Democratic-leaning voters. Trump needs Wisconsin to win, and the GOP knows this.
This is yet another reason the GOP blatantly fought to force people to vote in-person tomorrow, and force Wisconsin to throw out all absentee ballots arriving after tomorrow.
To be clear, many people still haven’t even received their mail-in ballots yet, so their only choice is risking their life to vote tomorrow in person, or give up their sacred right to vote.
We are facing a pandemic that we haven’t seen in over 100 years, yet the conservatives on the US Supreme Court were dead-set against the reasonable accommodation to extend the absentee arrival deadline to April 13th. Now, the day before the election, SCOTUS is ordering ballots to be discarded, even though voters in Wisconsin were told that they had until April 13th.
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There will only be five polling stations in the entire city of Milwaukee, a city of 600,000 people, and many poll workers are refusing to work citing their personal safety. The governor is ordering the National Guard to serve in this capacity. It’s utter madness.
