The Republican State Leadership Committee's "Judicial Fairness Initiative" Is Spending Millions to Influence Who Sits on
An arm of the Republican State Leadership Committee, dubbed the “Judicial Fairness Initiative” (RSLC-JFI), has spent at least $2 million dollars to aid the election ambitions of Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Mailers sent to Wisconsinites from the group implore voters to “[d]eliver President Trump a mandate by electing Brad Schimel for Supreme Court.”
RSLC-JFI is targeting Wisconsin’s highest court to try to get control in a state where abortion rights, access to the ballot, fair maps, and labor rights issues will be decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Pending before the court is a case to decide whether an 175+ year old statue criminalizing abortion, adopted decades before women had the right to vote, will be reinstated.
In prior Wisconsin Supreme Court races, RSLC-JFI’s million-dollar cash bombs, which funded attack ads smearing judicial candidates backed by progressive advocates, were timed for right before the general election. RSLC-JFI dropped these cash bombs after RSLC-JFI received similar sums from a key dark money conduit in the court-packing network of anti-abortion powerbroker Leonard Leo.
What You Should Know about RSLC-JFI:
https://truenorthresearch.org/2025/03/the-republican-state-leadership-committees-judicial-fairness-initiative-is-spending-millions-to-influence-who-sits-on-the-wisconsin-supreme-court/