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FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz attends her first hearing as a justice, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Protasiwiecz's campaign consultant inserted images of horses in ads as a vulgar joke about her opponent, her campaign manager told a liberal podcast last month. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 that Protasiewicz's campaign manager, Alejandro Verdin, told The Downballot podcast on Jan. 25 that her campaign operatives had heard people make baseless jokes at campaign focus groups and functions that her opponent, Dan Kelly, looked like someone who fornicates with horses. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin justice included horses in ads as vulgar joke about opponent, campaign manager says

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

A person walks on the steps toward the state Capitol on Oct. 24, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in a redistricting case that Democrats hope will result in new, more favorable legislative maps being in place for 2024 that will help them chip away at the large Republican majority. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court hearing arguments on redistricting that could result in new maps for 2024

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Members of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, including Justice David Prosser, Jr., left, Justice Patience Roggensack, center, and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, right, gather for Governor Scott Walker's state budget address at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis. Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. A Wisconsin judge on Friday, Nov. 10 ordered the former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to produce records related to her work advising the Republican Assembly speaker on whether to impeach a current justice.(AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart, File)

Wisconsin judge orders former chief justice to turn over records related to impeachment advice

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Members of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, including Justice David Prosser, Jr., left, Justice Patience Roggensack, center, and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, right, gather for Governor Scott Walker's state budget address at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Feb. 20, 2013. Roggensack, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, is fighting a subpoena ordering her to appear in court in a lawsuit related to advice she gave about possible impeachment of a current liberal justice, calling it “unreasonable and oppressive.” (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice won’t appear in court over impeachment advice

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told reporters on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Madison, Wis., that the unprecedented step of impeaching liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz is an option he is still considering. Protasiewicz has drawn Republican ire for refusing to step down from a redistricting case after she called Wisconsin's GOP-drawn legislative maps "rigged" during her campaign. (AP Photo/Harm Venhuizen)

Wisconsin Republican leader won’t back down from impeachment threat against Supreme Court justice

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz attends her first hearing as a justice, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin's Republican Assembly speaker revealed the names of the three former state Supreme Court justices he asked to investigate possible impeachment of a current sitting justice for the first time in a court filing made public Wednesday, Oct. 11. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos floated impeaching current liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she did not recuse from a redistricting lawsuit seeking to toss GOP-drawn legislative district boundary maps. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

2nd former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice advises Republican leader against impeachment

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz attends her first hearing as a justice, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. On Monday, Sept. 18, Republicans fighting to preserve Wisconsin legislative electoral maps they drew argued in new legal filings that the key liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice must recuse herself from the case despite the dismissal of complaints against her related to comments she made about redistricting. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin redistricting fight focuses on the recusal of a key justice as impeachment threat lingers

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser posing a question during a hearing at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., June 6, 2011. Former Justice Prosser, tapped to investigate impeaching newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz for taking Democratic Party money, accepted donations from the state Republican Party when he was on the court. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, Pool, File)

A member of the secret panel studying Wisconsin Supreme Court justice’s impeachment backed her rival

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, who is being targeted for possible impeachment by Republican lawmakers because of donations she received from the Democratic Party and comments she made during her campaign, attends her first hearing as a justice Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates often speak out on hot topics. Only one faces impeachment threat

By Christine Fernando and Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Democratic-supported Janet Protasiewicz participates in a debate Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Republicans talking about impeaching Protasiewicz before she's even heard a case, point to the nearly $10 million she received from the Democratic Party as proof that she can't fairly rule on redistricting cases that could weaken the GOP's hold on the Legislature.(AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Wisconsin GOP threatens to impeach justice over donations, but conservatives also took party cash

By Scott Bauer and Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Illustration on the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz must recuse herself in redistricting case

By Scott Walker

FILE - Janet Protasiewicz speaks after being sworn in as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, Aug. 1, 2023, in Madison, Wis. A state judiciary disciplinary panel has rejected several complaints lodged against Protasiewicz alleging that she violated the judicial code of ethics for comments she made during the campaign, a setback to Republican arguments that those remarks could warrant impeachment. On Tuesday, Sept. 5, Protasiewicz released a letter from the Wisconsin Judicial Commission informing her that “several complaints” regarding comments she had made during the campaign had been dismissed. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Complaints over campaign comments by Wisconsin Supreme Court justice are dismissed

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Democratic-supported Janet Protasiewicz participates in a debate, March 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Even before the newly elected justice who gave liberals a one-seat majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has heard a case, Republican lawmakers are talking about taking the unprecedented step of impeaching and removing her from office. And they have the votes to do it. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Why Wisconsin Republicans are talking about impeaching a new state Supreme Court justice

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Janet Protasiewicz speaks after being sworn in as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, Aug. 1, 2023, in Madison, Wis. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, liberals argued in a legal filing that Republicans were trying to nullify the election of the Democratic-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court justice by asking her to recuse herself from hearing redistricting lawsuits that could result in drawing new legislative electoral maps. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Liberals fight Republican attempt to boot Wisconsin Supreme Court justice from redistricting case

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Janet Protasiewicz speaks after being sworn in as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, Aug. 1, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have asked that Protasiewicz not hear lawsuits seeking to overturn GOP-drawn district boundary maps, saying she has prejudged the cases. Republicans argue in their motions filed Wednesday, Aug. 23 with the Wisconsin Supreme Court that Protasiewicz can’t fairly hear the cases because during her campaign for the seat earlier this year she called the Republican-drawn maps “unfair” and “rigged” and said there needs to be “a fresh look at the gerrymandering question.” (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin Republicans ask newly elected liberal justice to not hear redistricting case

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Protesters march past the U.S. Capitol following a Planned Parenthood rally in support of abortion access outside the Supreme Court on Saturday, April. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Republicans scramble for winning message on abortion after Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

An anti-abortion advocate along with abortion rights advocates hold up signs during the Emergency Pro-Life Rally for New Mexico in Las Cruces, N.M., July 19, 2022. The New Mexico Supreme Court blocked local anti-abortion ordinances Friday, March 31, 2023, pending the outcome of a case centered on constitutional rights to equal protection and due process. (Meg Potter/The Las Cruces Sun News via AP, File)

Pro-life politics hobbled by left successfully framing abortion debate as an all-or-nothing choice

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Republican-backed Dan Kelly and Democratic-supported Janet Protasiewicz participate in a debate Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The winner of the high stakes contest between Kelly and Protasiewicz will determine majority control of the court headed into the 2024 presidential election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File )

Abortion access at stake in Wisconsin Supreme Court race

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Democratic-supported Janet Protasiewicz participates in a debate Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Liberals take majority control of Wisconsin court ahead of abortion ruling

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Republican-backed Dan Kelly and Democratic-supported Janet Protasiewicz participate in a debate Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The winner of the high stakes contest between Kelly and Protasiewicz will determine majority control of the court headed into the 2024 presidential election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File )

Wisconsin Supreme Court control, abortion access at stake

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press