Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Brad Schimel reached a plea bargain with a criminal defendant whose attorney made donations to Schimel’s election campaign.

The Tesla CEO and X owner posted about Wisconsin's Supreme Court race a day after a Milwaukee meteorologist was fired for criticizing his arm gesture.

(WLUK) -- Elon Musk chimed in Thursday on the high-profile race that will decide control of Wisconsin's highest court. The tech giant and world's richest person first shared a post on X, written by a conservative activist, about the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Musk then added this statement:

Both campaigns are trying to use the issue to define Brad Schimel, the former Republican attorney general and a current Waukesha County judge.

We can undercut the arguments made by election deniers with simple fixes. Republicans and Democrats should be in support of cleaning up our process

Candidates in Wisconsin would be able to strike their names from the ballot by request without dying, as current law requires, under a bill two Republicans proposed on Tuesday.

Robert F. Kennedy tried unsuccessfully in Wisconsin and other states to pull his name from the 2024 presidential ballot.

Vos said "70 to 80% of the public" in Wisconsin and the country supports requiring photo identification to vote. National polling from Pew and Gallup released in 2024 shows more than 80% of the public supports voter ID, including majorities of Democrats.

A proposed state constitutional amendment requiring a photo ID to vote in Wisconsin elections is expected to receive final legislative approval as early as Tuesday. That would put the issue before voters on the April election ballot, following the Legislature also passing the proposed amendment during the previous legislative session.

In a few months, voters in the state will decide who the new state Supreme Court justice will be, and ahead of that election the two are campaigning across the state. On the campaign trail for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, judge Susan Crawford and Judge Brad Schimel speaking with voters on their priorities if elected.

Wisconsin requires proof of ID to vote. Federally licensed gun dealers are required to do background checks, but other gun sellers are not.

We survived the 2024 election in true Wisconsin fashion: voter turnout at 73% with 3.4 million people casting ballot, the most in a statewide election in history. And for the second election ...