Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said Monday that it was "outrageous" that Republicans planned to spend $680,000 on an investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin, accusing Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of "drinking the Kool-Aid" after meeting with former President Donald Trump.

A Republican-ordered investigation into Wisconsin's 2020 election could cost taxpayers at least $680,000, more than nine times the original cost of contracts signed earlier this summer, according to Reince Priebus, the former state and national head of the Republican Party.

The retired Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who is overseeing a review of the 2020 presidential election says a very thorough examination of the election is warranted, but the purpose of the investigation is not to overturn the results.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos plans to pay former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman $44,000 to lead a probe of 2020 presidential election results in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Dallet took the oath of office at the state Capitol on Monday in a ceremony attended by four of the other six justices.

A Wisconsin judge wasn't required to tell a man he would face a lifetime of GPS monitoring upon pleading guilty to child sex crimes because such monitoring is a public safety measure, not a form of punishment, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Rebecca Dallet, a liberal Milwaukee judge, easily defeated conservative Michael Screnock Tuesday in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court, fueling optimism among Democrats for more victories in the fall midterms.

The two candidates vying for a spot on the Wisconsin Supreme Court will meet on March 26 at a forum organized by the Milwaukee Bar Association.

The candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court are in a contest that's supposed to be nonpartisan but they're clearly showing voters they're choosing among three political ideologies.

The Milwaukee Bar Association will hold a forum in February for the three candidates now vying for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

One of the three candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court is taking a decidedly different approach to the race, embracing his partisan Democratic background and commenting on political matters that judicial candidates typically run away from.

A Milwaukee judge has raised nearly $271,000 in her bid for the state Supreme Court.

Sauk County Circuit Judge Michael Screnock, who defended Republicans targeted for recall in 2011 and backed Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 law curtailing public workers' collective bargaining rights, announced Friday he is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman will not seek a second term next year, creating an open seat on the state's highest court unless he resigns and a replacement is named before the election.

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Rebecca Dallet has entered the race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, becoming the second candidate to announce plans to seek the seat currently held by conservative Justice Michael Gableman.

A Madison attorney who has been a longtime Democratic donor announced Monday that he's running for the state Supreme Court against the conservative justice who wrote the majority opinion upholding the law that stripped Wisconsin public unions of most of their power.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has found that utility companies need not obtain new utility easements from owners of property adjacent to a transmission line whenever that line is upgraded in order to continue maintaining it.

The leader of the Democratic Party of Barron County has filed an ethics complaint against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday grilled lawyers in the case of a Lafayette County man who was convicted of resisting arrest and pointing a gun at a state Department of Nature Resources warden.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in Milewski v. Town of Dover, in which the justices are weighing in on matters such as whether an in-home inspection for tax purposes constitutes a warrantless search prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.

As he engaged in a desperate hunt for national money to help Republicans retain control of the Wisconsin Senate in a series of 2011 recall elections, Gov. Scott Walker reached out to Karl Rove.

Milwaukee can no longer enforce a long-standing requirement that police, firefighters, teachers and other public workers live within city limits, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday approved two rules changes meant to encourage lawyers to provide pro bono legal services.

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.

A special prosecutor has asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider its decision ending an investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign, a move that signals he may take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser said Thursday he didn't have to recuse himself from a ruling that ended a secret investigation into coordination between Republican Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign and outside groups.

A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has withdrawn his unusual request asking his colleagues to reconsider their decision not to hear an appeal of a felony conviction from a former aide to Gov. Scott Walker when he was Milwaukee County executive.

In an unusual move, a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has asked his colleagues to reconsider their decision not to hear an appeal of a felony conviction from a former aide to Gov. Scott Walker when he was Milwaukee County executive.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack cast the deciding vote in her favor to replace longtime Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson in the first-of-its kind action, emails released Thursday to The Associated Press show.

In keeping with last year’s legislative changes to the state’s other-acts evidence statute, the conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court took a recent case involving the sexual assault of a child as an occasion to liberalize its application of this sort of evidence.