Eight weeks after the election, Justice David Prosser has officially won another 10-year term to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Justice Prosser’s challenger, JoAnne Kloppenburg, announced today that she will not legally challenge the final election results.

After a close election on April 5, Justice Prosser won by 7,316 votes. A statewide recount was requested by Kloppenburg, which found that Justice Prosser won by 7,006 votes.

This race was important on many levels. Had Justice Prosser lost the race, the Court would have swung the balance of power back to the more liberal justices. It is likely that a number of the major civil liability reforms in Act 2 will ultimately land in the court system. Those provisions could have been in jeopardy had Kloppenburg won the race.