{"id":327387,"date":"2025-03-07T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327387"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T04:36:00","slug":"former-planned-parenthood-attorney-wisconsin-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-attorney-wisconsin-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood attorney seeks seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On April 1, Wisconsin voters will go to the polls to elect the state’s newest Wisconsin Supreme Court justice \u2014 and the election has stirred up debate surrounding the issue of abortion and recusal.<\/p>\n

County Court Judge Susan Crawford and County Court Judge Brad Schimel, the former state attorney general, are both running.\u00a0 Whoever is voted into the vacant justice position will have a long-term effect on the court and the cases it decides. Currently, the court leans liberal, but as a liberal justice is stepping down, there is an opportunity for a conservative judge to step in and give conservatives the majority<\/a> once again. If liberals continue to hold the majority, they could do so until 2028.<\/p>\n

Crawford previously worked<\/a> as an attorney with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the ACLU Reproductive Rights Project, helping to obtain a permanent block on the 2011 Wisconsin law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their abortion facility. Pro-lifers are concerned that this relationship \u2014 though the case took place a decade ago \u2014 would present a conflict of interest for Crawford on any upcoming abortion-related cases at the state Supreme Court. They are concerned that, should she win, she would choose not to recuse herself from such cases.<\/p>\n