The candidates' campaigns announced Monday that they will meet in a televised debate sponsored by the State Bar of Wisconsin, WISC-TV and WisPolitics.com on March 21st.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Janet Protasiewicz (right) and Dan Kelly (second from left) will participate in a televised debate on March 21. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)
The winner of the election will determine the court's ideological leaning for the next two years. Right now conservative-leaning justices hold a 4-3 majority but conservative Justice Patience Roggensack is stepping down, creating the open spot Kelly and Protasiewicz want. The race is officially nonpartisan but conservatives back Kelly and liberals support Protasiewicz.