Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel bring their political histories — and partisan backers —to the race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Brad Schimel reached a plea bargain with a criminal defendant whose attorney made donations to Schimel’s election campaign.

Now the issue has come up in the race for the state's highest court, which has no say over how Wisconsin manages DNA testing.

The event is just one of many partisan gatherings both candidates in the nonpartisan-in-name-only race have attended.

Susan Crawford is considered the liberal candidate in the state Supreme Court contest to replace retiring liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. A Crawford win would block the seven-person high court from flipping back to conservative control.