The presidential recount vote underway in Wisconsin is costing millions of dollars, diverting county workers from their normal end-of-year duties and raising questions about the integrity of the vote.

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates and outside groups spent at least $4.3 million ahead of Tuesday's election.

Powered by a surge in Republican turnout for the state's presidential primary, Rebecca Bradley pushed past heaps of negative publicity over her inflammatory college writings to defeat JoAnne Kloppenburg and win a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Rebecca Bradley defeated JoAnne Kloppenburg on Tuesday to win a 10-year term on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, shrugging off headlines about her inflammatory writings and riding a wave of Republican turnout for the state's presidential primary to victory.

Although most attention is now on the contested races in Wisconsin's presidential primary, voters who head to the polls Tuesday will also have their say in various judicial races.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has raised nearly $480,000 in the past two months, about $100,000 more than Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg in their race for a 10-year term on the high court.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley is striving to solidify her place on the high court in the April 5 election, while Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg is trying to break through in her second attempt for the seat.

The first time JoAnne Kloppenburg ran for Wisconsin Supreme Court, much of the focus was on Gov. Scott Walker as the race came in the middle of protests against his union-busting law.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley isn't saying whether she would recuse herself from an abortion case in light of comments she made as a college student equating abortion to the Holocaust.

A survey shows Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg ahead of incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley – at least among Milwaukee lawyers.

Wisconsin Supreme Court hopeful JoAnne Kloppenburg says Justice Rebecca Bradley's resume is thin and she owes her judicial career to political connections.

Wisconsin's state Supreme Court candidates sparred over judicial philosophy and political ties in a debate Friday night, trading familiar jabs in the increasingly heated race for a full 10-year term on the court.

The two Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates are facing off again in a debate with less than three weeks to go before the election.

Wisconsin's state Supreme Court candidates went after each other in a debate Tuesday evening that took a far sharper tone than previous encounters, even as they battled over familiar territory of judicial philosophy, negative headlines and political independence.

While the attention will be on the presidential competitions, there will be an equally important contest on the April 5 ballot. Voting for a place on the state Supreme Court will determine whether Wisconsin's historic commitment to judicial independence and integrity will be renewed.

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg says she misspoke when she told a youth group recently that President Abraham Lincoln had slaves.

With less than a month to go before the election in a close race for Wisconsin's Supreme Court, the usual suspects among liberal and conservative interest groups have gotten off to a slow start toward spending the amounts of money that have made other recent contests remarkable.

There were three things that Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates agreed on at Wednesday’s forum: recusals for justices, handling complaints against justices and the legality of arbitration clauses attached to employment agreements.

Candidates vying for a spot on the Wisconsin Supreme Court bench will face off Wednesday at a debate in Milwaukee.

The AFL-CIO of Wisconsin has endorsed Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg for Supreme Court justice.

In an apparent appeal to hunters, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley appeared in a mailer before the February primary wearing blaze orange and holding a shotgun, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The question over whether a vacancy should be filled this year on the U.S. Supreme Court is becoming an issue in the nonpartisan race for Wisconsin's Supreme Court.

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Rebecca Bradley and JoAnne Kloppenburg are set to meet in a debate next month on the University of Wisconsin campus.

The Wisconsin Professional Police Association has endorsed Court of Appeals Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race.

The candidate knocked out of the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is endorsing Court of Appeals Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg.

A watchdog group says fundraising and spending in the Wisconsin Supreme Court primary suggests a flood of money will pour into the race between incumbent Rebecca Bradley and JoAnne Kloppenburg.

Wisconsin voters advanced an incumbent Supreme Court justice and a Court of Appeals judge to an April showdown for a 10-year term on the state's highest court, a contest likely to play out along ideological lines after a sharply partisan primary.

Biographical information about the candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court primary election arrives Tuesday with the same overt partisanship that has characterized the court itself in recent years, but a look past the campaign ads finds more differences in the candidates than just ideology.

Wisconsin officials are predicting only about 10 percent of eligible voters will turn out for Tuesday’ s primary election for the state Supreme Court and various local offices.