Judge Crawford has led legal fights to protect union power and abortion rights and to oppose voter ID.<\/p>\n
“Growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world [Musk] for justice in Wisconsin,” she said as she celebrated her victory. “And we won.”<\/p>\n
Mr Musk<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0and groups he backs, spent more than $21m (\u00a316.2m) in a bid to unseat her, with the DOGE boss even flying to Wisconsin to\u00a0personally hand over $1m (\u00a3770,000) cheques to two voters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our Supreme Court,” Judge Crawford said.<\/p>\n “And Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale.”<\/p>\n The race was the most expensive in US judicial history and had the highest turnout for a Wisconsin Supreme Court election ever – as many saw it as a proxy fight for the nation’s political battles.<\/p>\n Judge Crawford defeated Republican-backed Brad Schimel, a former state attorney general.<\/p>\n When he told his supporters he had conceded to Judge Crawford, one woman began to chant: “Cheater, cheater!”<\/p>\n “No,” Mr Schimel said. “You’ve got to accept the results.”<\/p>\n Source: \u00a0![\"Sky](\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"){kind=logo}
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