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Democrats just locked down control of one of the most important courts in America

Dems won a swing-state election in a 20-point blowout.

Wisconsin voters effectively gave Democrats a supermajority on one of the most important state supreme courts in the country on Tuesday.

The result was a blowout. Justice-elect Chris Taylor defeated Judge Maria Lazar by a twenty-point margin. Although Wisconsin Supreme Court races are technically nonpartisan, every recent race has pitted a “liberal” backed by Democrats against a “conservative” supported by the Republican Party. Taylor previously served in the state legislature as a Democrat.

Get the latest developments on the US Supreme Court from senior correspondent Ian Millhiser.

She will replace Justice Rebecca Bradley, a “conservative” in the euphemistic language Wisconsin uses to describe Republican justices.

Taylor’s victory also means that, barring the death of a justice or some other unlikely event, Democrats will retain effective........

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