On Wednesday morning, the Wisconsin AG race was too close to call. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney called Josh Kaul and conceded on election night.
but it was still a critical contest in battleground Wisconsin, one of the many states nationwide where both parties have turned to attorneys general over the last decade to challenge the other side's policies in state and federal court.
Since Kaul won his first term in 2018, he has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's 173-year-old abortion ban, defended 2020 election results that showedwon the state and joined a number of multistate lawsuits challenging Trump administration policies. Those have included a rollback of the Endangered Species Act and changes to the Affordable Care Act that would have removed protections for women, LGBTQ individuals and non-English speakers.
Kaul has questioned whether Toney, the Fond du Lac County district attorney, would use the attorney general's office to aid a Donald Trump victory if he seeks the presidency in 2024. Toney has countered by portraying Kaul as soft on crime He attacked Kaul for delays in crime lab test results, pushing to end cash bail and understaffing at the state Department of Justice. He has called for getting tough on voter fraud and cracking down on crime in Milwaukee by allowing the attorney general to directly prosecute defendants there rather than leaving cases up to local prosecutors.
He also pledged to enforce the state's 1849 law banning abortions. That included a call to allow district attorneys to prosecute abortions in adjoining counties before backing off that stance last month.
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