MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Anyone needing proof of the power and significance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court need look no further than the lines of mask-wearing voters that stretched for hours in Milwaukee during an election held during a pandemic. An election-eve decision by the court overturning the governor’s order to postpone the vote made the state an outlier in pushing ahead with voting. The court’s ruling to proceed with the election broke squarely along ideological lines. It’s a division that’s become common in some of the highest profile cases the court has handled in recent years.
