4-2-19 wisconsin supreme court race

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court race to be decided Tuesday won’t have an immediate impact on control of the state’s highest court, but it could position liberals to take over in 2020.  Liberal-backed Lisa Neubauer faces fellow appeals court judge Brian Hagedorn, the favorite of conservatives.  The winner will serve a 10-year term.  Conservatives have a 4-3 majority. A Neubauer win wouldn’t change that, but it would make it possible for liberals to take control of the court in another election next year for the first time since 2008.  She has outraised Hagedorn and benefited from about seven times more spending by partisan outside groups. That includes a group run by former Democratic U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who came to Wisconsin to rally support for Neubauer.  Nearly every judge who has endorsed a candidate in the race backs Neubauer.  “I am really honored in this race to have such incredibly broad bipartisan support from so many folks across the state,”  Nuebauer told WFDL news.  Neubauer pitches herself as fair, impartial and independent.  Hagedorn is an evangelical Christian who said his personal views don’t affect his work as a judge.  in 2016 he founded a private Christian elementary school that bars homosexual teachers allows for the expulsion of gay students.  “So many folks go to schools that are faith-based schools that adhere to traditional teachings and the idea that would be somehow disqualifying for me as a judge is absurd,”   Hagedorn told WFDL news.  Hagedorn and Neubauer will be guests Tuesday morning on AM 1170’s Between the Lines program.