Liberal Rebecca Dallet wins seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Rebecca Dallet.
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Rebecca Dallet defeated Michael Screnock in Tuesday's race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.

A liberal, Dallet is a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge and former prosecutor, and she attributes her win "to Wisconsin voters standing up to special interests. I think they're ready to have fair and independent courts." This is the first time in 23 years that a liberal candidate who was not an incumbent has won a seat on the state's high court, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.