Rebecca Bradley, one of three conservative justices on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, said she will seek another 10-year term on the court in 2026 in an attempt to keep liberals from gaining more of an advantage in the state.

Bradley told Wispolitics.com she is running to “ensure that there is a voice for the constitution and for the rule of law to preserve that in the state of Wisconsin.”

“I’m concerned for what an extremely radical court is going to do over the next three years, and I will be spending the next several weeks assessing what happened on Tuesday and figuring out a path to achieving a court that is not led by and dominated by the radical left, that gets back to deciding cases under the law and respecting the constitution,” Bradley told WisPolitics.

Bradley's incumbency status doesn't guarantee a victory, but it makes it more likely. Liberals have won four of the last five Supreme Court elections by double digits.

Wisconsin needs Bradley

The court is currently 4-3 in favor of liberals. A loss of Bradley's seat would make it 5-2.

Bradley's name has come up as a contender for retiring federal judge Diane Sykes's seat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. That would be a lifetime appointment, but Bradley has said she wants to focus on Wisconsin right now.

Wisconsin needs Bradley to keep things competitive right now; a 4-3 majority means that only one liberal justice needs to side with conservatives to sway a decision.

Democrats have shifted to using liberal-dominated courts to impose their will on the rest of the country, since the executive and legislative branches are currently dominated by Republicans.

Partisanship on the court

State supreme courts are more limited in their powers than federal ones, but can impact future elections with rulings, including the drawing of electoral maps.

“State supreme court judges make more decisions that impact people’s rights and liberties now in the post-Dobbs world,” Deirdre Schifeling, ACLU’s chief political and advocacy officer, said, “but also [due to the] U.S. Supreme Court stripping away a number of federal protections for rights and liberties, Dobbs being the most famous among them.”

Dobbs is the decision that shifted abortion rights to states by getting rid of the federal guarantee of abortion rights.

Ballotpedia said that 24 states have Republican majorities in their supreme courts, while Democrats have majorities in 9.

Presumably, the other 17 are non-partisan.

Courts are not really supposed to have political agendas, but we have all seen how that has played out in more recent decisions.