Special Elections - Any chance the GOP pulls an upset in that Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice race?

I find the idea of an election where one candidate suggests they will be redrawing congressional districts the exact opposite of how the judiciary should be handled.

As pointed out by Andrew McCarthy in a column today, the vast majority of judges in the district court system were appointed by Obama and Biden and most have little respect for anything other than the pure politics of the job.

There was once an idea that Judges did not want to be overruled and worked hard to make the correct legal rulings based on the law in a way that made it difficult to be overruled. It was considered an belittling experience when a respected Judge was told he was wrong about the law by a superior court. The less you were overruled, the better you were thought of as a judge.

But today, that has largely gone out the window as it pertains as least to the new liberal judges and their lack of respect for these principles and historical norms. Getting it right (as McCarthy suggests) is now more about getting it politically correct, rather than legally correct. The idea that it might get overturned on appeal is no longer a concern and getting it legally correct is no longer a priority.

This is why it is so dangerous to politicize a Supreme Court Justice position and basically have them running as Democrats vs Republican. This only serves to further legitimize the idea that judges are just political players with more political power than the actual people elected to be the actual politicians. By putting all of the power into one branch of the Federal Government we have becomes a nation ruled by judicial fiat. Yes, some will say we are a nation of laws, but laws require congress to write and pass them and for the executive to sign it into law. The judges no not exist to change laws, write laws, or impose their personal opinions over those of the other two branches.

Right now, we are looking at a situation in Wisconsin where people are literally voting for one person who openly is telling everyone how they can politically affect the state and the country as a whole or another who is suggesting that the role is to be a judge and not a judicial legislature. Right now it looks like a close race, but there are already reports of election counting shenanigans where election officials are locking the election watchers out of the rooms and counting ballots in private. This doesn't look good.