Janet Protasiewicz wins election to Wisconsin Supreme Court

MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) — Janet Protasiewicz defeated Dan Kelly on Tuesday for a seat on the state Supreme Court, marking a significant ideological shift to a liberal majority on the court. For the first time since 2008, liberals will control the court 4-3 with Protasiewicz’s victory. The shift to the left also marks the beginning of a series of lawsuits Democrats are likely to bring to the state’s court, seeking to repeal a pre-Civil War law banning abortion in most cases and reopening decisions on absentee ballot drop boxes and other election laws. The race was coined as the…