No. Not that one. That's barely a "story" at this point. Trump was arraigned. We knew that. He's upset. Dog bites man. It's not a story.
The big story was in Wisconsin. Wisconsin does a dumb thing: it elects its Supreme Court judges. But, that's the rule so that's the rule. The election became a referendum on Dobbs and the overwhelmingly gerrymandered electoral maps in that state. Wisconsin is a true swing state with a large population of old white country folk and Milwaukee and Madison. Trump won it in 2016 and Biden won it in 2020. They have a Democratic governor.
Their legislature has an almost super majority of Republicans because of how gerrymandered their maps are. It has been pointless to challenge those maps because the Supreme Court of the US is corrupt and partisan as hell and because the Wisconsin court wouldn't rule in their favor. Now, they can expect a fair hearing and perhaps see those maps overturned. Additionally, challenges to abortion bans will now likely fail.
The critical long term issue is the gerrymandering of those maps, but the proximate cause of Janet Protasiewicz's victory was Dobbs. Dobbs will continue to reshape electoral politics no matter what that recently indicted bloated meat sack does.
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