Wisconsin Supreme Court election: ‘Our courts not for sale’ – Susan Crawford slams Elon Musk

Judge Susan Crawford, the projected winner of the Wisconsin 2025 Supreme Court election, has slammed billionaire Elon Musk, noting that US courts are not for sale.

In her remarks to supporters after her projected victory against Elon Musk-backed Brad Schimel for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Judge Crawford said the state’s voters “fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy.”;

DAILY POST reports that Crawford’s election to the battleground state’s highest court marks one of the first major electoral tests of President Donald Trump’s administration and the power of Elon Musk’s money influence in the scheme of things in the United States.

Her election by voters preserves a 4-3 liberal majority at the state’s Supreme Court, which is expected to hear major cases involving abortion access, voting rights, and the contours of the state’s congressional districts, among other issues and reforms by the Trump administration.

“This campaign has been an incredible, life-altering experience in so many ways, and I’m so grateful to have earned the trust and support of voters across this great state,”; Crawford told supporters Tuesday after the race was called.

“As a little girl, growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world — for justice, in Wisconsin, and we won,”; she told her supporters.

Wisconsin voters “fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court, and Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price,”; Crawford said.

“Our courts are not for sale,”; she declared.

Recall Musk and political groups tied to the billionaire spent roughly $20 million to support Schimel’s campaign, including more than $7 million in television advertising alone.

Similarly, Trump had in the past few days made several statements calling on supporters to vote for Schimel.

Meanwhile, Crawford, whose campaign was supported by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, received endorsements from prominent national Democrats who helped raise more than $17 million.

Following Crawford's victory, she has a 10-year term at the Supreme Court, which begins in August 2025.