POLITICSWisconsina s Cage-Match Supreme Court ElectionA November tune-up. Ed Kilgore

Center-left candidate Rebecca Dallet and conservative Michael Screnock will face off next week in a technically nonpartisan election for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Scott Walker's fight with his state's judiciary over his efforts to avoid two state legislative special elections - which he has now abandoned - hasn't been the only Wisconsin news involving judges or elections.

Speaker Ryan is expected to seek re-election; will he stay?

In this March 20,2018, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., pauses as he speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan's political future as House speaker has been such a topic of speculation that even the simple question of whether he will seek re-election to his Wisconsin seat remains secret.

Redistricting a thorn for justices

Keegan Herrod, 6, of Denver , dressed as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, waits in line while hoping to see the justices with her mother, Maeve Felle , Wednesday outside the Supreme Court building in Washington where the justices heard arguments in a gerrymandering case. WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices wrestled Wednesday with how far states may go to craft electoral districts that give the majority party a significant political advantage, delving into an issue that affects elections across the country.

Numerous redistricting challenges pending in courts

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday on a lawsuit alleging partisan gerrymandering in the drawing of a Maryland congressional district. Eight years after the 2010 Census provided the basis for legislative redistricting, several other cases alleging unconstitutional gerrymandering in various states also are still working their way through the court system.

Courts weighing numerous challenges to political boundaries

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday on a lawsuit alleging partisan gerrymandering in the drawing of a Maryland congressional district. Eight years after the 2010 Census provided the basis for legislative redistricting, several other cases alleging unconstitutional gerrymandering in various states also are still working their way through the court system.

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: Firm sent foreigners to advise US campaigns

Cambridge Analytica assigned dozens of non-U.S. citizens to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to Republican candidates in 2014, according to three former workers for the data firm, even as an attorney warned executives to abide by U.S. laws limiting foreign involvement in elections. The effort was designed to present the newly created company, whose parent, SCL Group, was based in London, as "an American brand" that would appeal to U.S. political clients, according to former Cambridge Analytica research director Christopher Wylie.

Baldwin searches for right path to keep key Senate seat

In this Feb. 22, 2018 file photo, Republican Senate candidate Leah Vukmir, standing, asks a question of Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin during a luncheon on in Madison, Wis. Vukmir is one of two Republicans running in the primary for a chance to take on Baldwin in the fall.

Republicans distance themselves from Ryan foe Paul Nehlen

Wisconsin Republicans are distancing themselves from Paul Nehlen, a Republican challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan who has been suspended from Twitter after a series of posts criticized as being racist or anti-Semitic. Nehlen, who got just 16 percent of the vote against Ryan in 2016, is mounting another primary run this year.

How can Republicans stop losing seats in special elections?

Scott Walker has a plan: stop holding them . It may not surprise you that he's willing to violate Wisconsin law in doing so: The governor is deliberately denying Wisconsinites representation in the legislature by refusing to call special elections to fill open seats in the State Assembly and the State Senate.

Pa. Republicans are assaulting the rule of law in gerrymander fight | Opinion

Republicans in control of the Pennsylvania Legislature gerrymandered the state's congressional districts, seeking to entrench their party in power. Now that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that the state's partisan gerrymandering was unconstitutional , we're seeing an unprecedented assault on the rule of law.

Wisconsin Senate candidate attacks GOP rival over pay raises

Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson is attacking rival Leah Vukmir for taking some pay raises, calling her a hypocrite for not always returning them over her 15 years in the Legislature. Vukmir, a state senator, has been in the Legislature since 2003, first in the Assembly and now in the Senate.

Plans would move juveniles out of troubled Wisconsin prison

Juveniles would no longer be housed at a Wisconsin youth prison complex that's been under federal investigation and the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging inmate abuse as part of dramatic reorganization plan announced Thursday by Gov. Scott Walker. The $80 million proposal would change the Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake prisons into medium-security adult prisons and open five smaller regional juvenile prisons across the state.