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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A government watchdog group in Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to prohibit billionaire Elon Musk from ever again offering cash payments to voters in the battleground state like he did in this spring's hotly contested Supreme Court race.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Trump administration has accused the Wisconsin Elections Commission of failing to provide a state-based complaint process for voters bringing allegations against the commission itself, calling that a violation of federal law and threatening to withhold all federal funding.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin could go down as billionaire Elon Musk's last big spend on a political campaign.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin appeals court judge who was an outspoken supporter of abortion rights in the state Legislature and is a former policy director for Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that she is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature voted Thursday to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, including legalizing marijuana, even as both sides negotiate a tax cut.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Democratic voters on Thursday asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state's current congressional district boundaries after a similar request was rejected last year.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Friday that every American should be concerned about "chilling" suggestions from President Donald Trump's top border adviser that he could be arrested over guidance the Democrat issued to state employees about what to do if confronted by federal immigration agents.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Josh Schoemann, the top elected official in a suburban Milwaukee county, this week created a committee to run for governor in 2026, making him the first candidate from either major party to get into the race.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Voters in Wisconsin could be seeing double on Election Day if the practice of fusion voting -- which allows the same candidate to appear on the ballot under multiple party lines -- makes a comeback in the battleground state.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Democratic governor of Wisconsin's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The next chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will come from the liberal majority of justices, as the court announced Thursday that the conservative who currently holds the mostly honorary position will be replaced.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Susan Crawford's Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cemented a liberal majority on the state's top court for at least three more years and dealt a devastating blow to Republicans who fear it paves the way for rulings that will overturn or block the...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Susan Crawford's Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cemented a liberal majority on the state's top court for at least three more years and dealt a devastating blow to Republicans who fear it paves the way for a wide array of rulings that will...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Susan Crawford, winner of Tuesday's race to fill a key seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, was backed by national Democrats and made opposition to Elon Musk a centerpiece of her campaign.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court defeated a challenger endorsed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday, cementing a liberal majority for at least three more years.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters decided Tuesday to enshrine a voter ID law in the state constitution.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Unprecedented turnout led to ballot shortages in Wisconsin's largest city Tuesday as voters cast ballots in "historic" numbers to decide a Supreme Court race pitting one candidate backed by President Donald Trump against another aligned with Democrats.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Strong turnout led to ballot shortages in Wisconsin's largest city Tuesday as voters cast ballots in high numbers to decide a Supreme Court race pitting one candidate backed by President Donald Trump against another aligned with Democrats.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be decided Tuesday in a race that broke records for spending and has become a proxy battle for the nation's political fights, pitting a candidate backed by President Donald Trump against a Democratic-aligned challenger.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be decided Tuesday in a race that broke records for spending and has become a proxy battle for the nation's political fights, pitting a candidate backed by President Donald Trump against a Democratic-aligned challenger.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's top education official, who will guide policies affecting K-12 schools during President Donald Trump's second term, will be elected Tuesday in a race between the teachers union-backed incumbent and a Republican-supported critic.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Donald Trump's preferred candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court and his Democratic-backed challenger made a final blitz across the state on Monday, the day before voting concludes in a race where early turnout has surged and spending is nearing $100 million.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state's Democratic attorney general to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's attorney general on Sunday asked the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters, an appeal that came hours before President Donald Trump's ally planned the giveaway at an evening rally.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the state's hotly contested Supreme Court race was to be decided.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday clarified his reasons for visiting Wisconsin two days ahead of its hotly contested Supreme Court election after deleting a social media post saying he planned to "personally hand over" $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the race.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday deleted a social media post in which he had announced plans to hold a rally in Wisconsin to "personally hand over" $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the state's hotly contested Supreme Court race.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Billionaire Elon Musk said he plans to hold a rally in Wisconsin to "personally hand over" $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the state's hotly contested Supreme Court race, despite a state law that prohibits giving anything of value in exchange for voting.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Billionaire Elon Musk says a Wisconsin voter has been awarded $1 million days before the conclusion of a fiercely contested state Supreme Court election that has broken spending records and become a referendum on Musk and the first months of President Donald Trump's administration.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Turnout during the first week of early voting ahead of Wisconsin's pivotal state Supreme Court race is far exceeding levels from another high-stakes election just two years ago, the latest sign of the intense interest in a contest that has obliterated spending records and drawn attention from President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser, Elon Musk.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Friday called on his supporters to vote for a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court who already had the full-throated backing of Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A group funded by billionaire Elon Musk is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition in opposition to "activist judges," a move that comes two weeks before the state's Supreme Court election and after the political action committee made a similar proposal last year in battleground states.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Republican-backed candidate in Wisconsin's closely watched state Supreme Court race has resurfaced long debunked concerns about voting fraud because of the late reporting of ballots in Milwaukee just two weeks before the April 1 election.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats fighting for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will get a sense Tuesday of how energized their sides are with the start of early in-person voting for the hotly contested race.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats fighting for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will get a sense Tuesday of how energized their sides are with the start of early in-person voting for the hotly contested race.
OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (AP) -- Donald Trump Jr. told Republicans at a Monday rally that a win in Wisconsin's high-stakes Supreme Court race is imperative to protect his father's agenda and maintain GOP momentum ahead of the 2026 midterms and the next presidential election.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The high-stakes race for Wisconsin Supreme Court has gotten most of the attention leading up to the April 1 election. But it is not the only issue voters will decide when early voting begins Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Abortion rights and the influence of donations from billionaires Elon Musk and George Soros took center stage in a sometimes testy debate Wednesday between candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court less than three weeks before the election.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin appeals court ruled Wednesday that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court's ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Candidates in a race that will determine ideological control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will square off Wednesday in their only scheduled debate before the April 1 election.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's version of the Elon Musk-led effort charged with making government run more efficiently struck a more collegial, bipartisan tone in its first meeting Tuesday, taking input from Democrats and hearing testimony from a broad array of government leaders.
SAUK CITY, Wis. (AP) -- They came to vent and to cry and to exhort.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Four Wisconsin voters whose ballots were not counted in the November presidential election initiated a class-action lawsuit Thursday seeking $175,000 in damages each.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Democrats on Tuesday promised to "punch back" against Elon Musk in the race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, casting the election as a referendum on the billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Democrats on Tuesday promised to "punch back" against Elon Musk in the race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, casting the election as a referendum on the billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- An audit of the November election won by President Donald Trump in swing-state Wisconsin found that not a single vote was counted incorrectly, altered or missed by tabulating machines, an audit determined.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court accused the court's liberal majority, all women, of being "driven by their emotions" during oral arguments in an abortion rights case -- comments his challenger's campaign on Friday called "disgusting."
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court accused the court's liberal majority, all women, of being "driven by their emotions" during oral arguments in an abortion rights case -- comments his challenger's campaign on Friday called "disgusting."
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court race who has received the support of Elon Musk said Wednesday that it's more concerning that his Democratic-supported opponent is benefiting from donations by liberal philanthropist George Soros.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Democratic-backed candidate for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a race that will determine whether liberals maintain their majority decried Elon Musk's involvement, saying Tuesday that the world's wealthiest man was "trying to buy a seat on our Supreme Court."
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- In a Feb. 18 story about the race for Wisconsin education secretary, The Associated Press reported that Brittany Kinser is an advocate for private schools. The story should have made clear that Kinser is an advocate for the state's school choice program, which allows parents to send their kids to charter schools or use public money...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's Democratic-backed incumbent state schools leader will face a Republican-supported challenger after both advanced in Tuesday's three-person primary.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's Democratic-backed incumbent state schools leader advanced in Tuesday's three-person primary, overcoming challenges from a union-backed superintendent and an advocate for private schools supported by Republicans.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday proposed cutting taxes by nearly $2 billion, echoing a priority of Republicans, while also outlining a plan to fight water pollution and push back on President Donald Trump's tariffs.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday proposed cutting taxes by nearly $2 billion, echoing a priority of Republicans, while also outlining a plan to fight water pollution and push back on President Donald Trump's tariffs.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Republican Party official lacked the standing to bring a lawsuit challenging the use of a mobile voting van in 2022.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Voters on Tuesday were casting ballots to narrow the field in a three-way race for battleground Wisconsin's top education job, a post at the forefront in the state of the national fight over school funding during President Donald Trump's second term.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice on Wednesday rejected a Republican request that she not hear a pending case that seeks to restore collective bargaining rights that tens of thousands of teachers, nurses and other state workers lost in 2011.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Billionaire megadonors are opening their wallets to influence the high-stakes race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the swing state's nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted for removal by Republican lawmakers over the 2020 presidential election, can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and confirmed by the state Senate.