The expense in the election of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, which had already established a record of the most expensive state Supreme Court career in the history of the United States, has spent $ 90 million starting Monday, according to an account of The Brennan Center for JusticeA non -profit law institute.
Those $ 90 million include more than $ 40 million in total spent by the liberal candidate, Dane County Judge, Susan Crawford, and groups that support it, and almost $ 50 million in total spent by the conservative candidate of Waukesha County, Brad Schimel, and groups that support him.
The groups affiliated with Elon Musk, the closest advisor of President Donald Trump and the billionaire owner of Tesla, have spent almost $ 20 million in the race that supports Schimel. The America Pac affiliated with musk has spent more than $ 12 million, while another group linked to it, building the future of the United States, has spent almost $ 6 million.
The judge of the Dane County Circuit Court, Susan Crawford, candidate for the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, talks to supporters during a campaign stop at the headquarters of the Waukesha County Democratic Party, on March 29, 2025, in Waukesha, Wis .. Milwaukee.
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Musk has separated $ 2 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party, which is supporting Schimel.
Musk has cast the career as “a vote for which the party controls the House of Representatives” and has involved that “the future of civilization” is at stake. On Sunday, the technology billionaire also controversially gave two $ 1 million checks to the attendees in a demonstration in their last effort to support Schimel.
Elon Musk arrives at a town hall with a cheese head hat at the Ki Convention Center on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Crawford has also received significant support. The main liberal donors as the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker and Democratic donor George Soros have given money to the Wisconsin Democratic Party, and the state party has donated around $ 2 million to Crawford.
According to the Brennan Center account, Crawford’s own campaign has spent more than $ 22 million; Schimel’s has spent more than $ 11 million.
The non -profit organization says that the previous record of spending in a career in the State Supreme Court was in the Supreme Court of the Wisconsin State in 2023, when $ 56 million were spent.
The Wisconsin State Capitol building, November 22, 2024, in Madison, Wis.
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The high profile choice will be held on Tuesday and will help determine the ideological inclination of the Court, which is currently inclined liberal, before the possible cases in hotontones, such as the redistribution of districts and the rights of abortion.
“Throughout the country, the state elections of the Supreme Court have received more attention, and more money, as people realize more and more that these courts are deciding some of the highest legal struggles of bets today. But even with the growing attention on these careers nationwide, what is happening in Wisconsin is different from any other state that I have seen,” Douglas Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke, of Brennan in the Brennan Judgiaral program.
Keith said that the $ 90 million spent in the Supreme Court race make it look more like a competitive career for the United States Senate “than relatively quiet judicial elections of only a few years ago.”
“All this expense and the attacks that come with it, make it much more difficult for the public to see the judges such as doing something different from raw politics, which is worrying at a time when it is so important that the public can trust that the courts can serve as a significant verification in the political branches,” Keith said.
Until Monday, around 644,000 people in Wisconsin voted early in person or by mail, according to the Wisconsin Electoral Commission.
