{"id":37724,"date":"2025-04-02T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/first-thing-liberal-judge-beats-musk-backed-candidate-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:57:10","slug":"first-thing-liberal-judge-beats-musk-backed-candidate-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/first-thing-liberal-judge-beats-musk-backed-candidate-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Liberal judge beats Musk-backed candidate in Wisconsin supreme court race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Crawford defeats Brad Schimel in most expensive US judicial election ever, a major win for the Democrats. Plus, Israel announces plan to seize \u2018large areas\u2019 of Gaza<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-result-race\">Susan Crawford won the race for a seat<\/a> on the Wisconsin supreme court on Tuesday in a big coup for Democrats, after Elon Musk backed the conservative candidate, making it the most expensive judicial contest in US history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How important is this for liberals?<\/strong> It\u2019s a big win. They will retain their 4-3 ideological majority on the state supreme court, which will hear cases about abortion and collective bargaining.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the campaign organisers pull it off? <\/strong>Milwaukee reported record turnout, even running out of ballots in some polling places. Democrats said Musk\u2019s involvement had galvanised people to get involved in grassroots efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s on the table?<\/strong> Potentially reciprocal tariffs on the US\u2019s trading partners, as well as 25% tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which tariffs are already in force?<\/strong> A 20% tariff on all Chinese imports, 25% on all steel and aluminium imports, and a 10% tariff on energy imports from Canada.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/first-thing-liberal-judge-beats-musk-backed-candidate-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Crawford defeats Brad Schimel in most expensive US judicial election ever, a major win for the Democrats. Plus, Israel announces plan to seize \u2018large areas\u2019 of Gaza Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The liberal judge Susan Crawford won the race for a seat on the Wisconsin &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Liberal judge beats Musk-backed candidate in Wisconsin supreme court race\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/first-thing-liberal-judge-beats-musk-backed-candidate-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Liberal judge beats Musk-backed candidate in Wisconsin supreme court race\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}