Author M.D. Kittle profileA day after a bruising defeat in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, Badger State conservatives were mired in the usual questions, second-guessing, what ifs and — in some corners — recriminations that come with big losses. And make no mistake, Tuesday’s loss was a big one for so many reasons.

Far-left Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeated conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel by 10 percentage points (55% to 45%). In historically high turnout for a spring election in which 2.3 million people voted, Crawford drew nearly 230,000 more votes than Schimel.

And for conservatives across the country, the price of losing the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history is immense. The left will control the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the foreseeable future. That means a long line of Wisconsin’s conservative reforms are now in peril, and the leftist court — as advertised — is very likely to preside over redrawn congressional maps to give Democrats a much better chance of taking back the House next year and hamstringing President Trump’s agenda. …

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