Justice Brian Hagedorn, a conservative whom Republicans backed but who has angered them by sometimes siding with liberals, was also there. Mark Pocan, and the three other liberal high court justices who, along with Protasiewicz now form the majority, attended. State Democratic legislative leaders, the Democratic secretary of state and attorney general, Democratic U.S. And we all want a Wisconsin where everyone is afforded equal justice under the law.” We all want to live in communities that are safe. “We want a Wisconsin with a fair and impartial Supreme Court. “We all want a Wisconsin where our freedoms are protected,” she said at the ceremony. Protasiewicz promised not to bow to political pressure. More battles over voting rules and elections are expected leading up to 2024, along with challenges to the state’s abortion ban, Republican-drawn political boundary lines and a host of other hot-button issues. The conservative-controlled court came within one vote of overturning President Joe Biden’s narrow win in the state in 2020, though Biden still would have had enough electoral votes to claim the presidency. Protasiewicz's win carries tremendous weight in Wisconsin, where the state Supreme Court has been the last word on some of the biggest political and policy battles of the past decade-plus. Janet Protasiewicz, who made abortion rights a focus of her winning election campaign and called Republican-drawn redistricting maps “rigged,” marked the start of her 10-year term with a swearing-in ceremony in the state Capitol Rotunda attended by an overflow crowd of hundreds, including many Democratic officeholders. Wisconsin Democrats celebrated the beginning of a new era for the state Supreme Court on Tuesday as it flipped from conservative to liberal control for the first time in 15 years.

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