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Wisconsin’s Spring Election is April 7, and the most high-profile race is the State Supreme Court seat vacated by conservative judge Rebecca Bradley. So who better to talk with than someone who put the court at the center of an entire podcast season?“Right now, the liberals are in the majority of the court. So, there are seven seats on the court, liberals hold four of those.” That’s how Sam Woods, producer and co-host of WUWM’s Swing State of the Union, started his high-level explanation.“Now it doesn’t quite work like a political party kind of thing,” he continued, “but when we’re talking about cases like abortion rights or redistricting or cases that involve hot-button issues, it tends to kind of side with that ideological — liberals go one way, conservatives go another.”Woods and co-host Joy Powers focuses on 2025’s expensive Supreme Court race for season two of Swing State of the Union, and now they're going even deeper into the court with two bonus episodes they’re releasing in March, asking questions ab