'Very big deal': Little-discussed election result said to show positive progressive trend

While Democrats anxiously brace for Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second term in which he is expected to load the federal judiciary with hard-right judicial picks, election results nationwide paint a surprisingly promising picture for progressives, according to one analysis.

Some of the less talked about election results that have a big impact on courts across the country were won in state Supreme Courts where voters across the country sent liberal justices, Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern wrote Tuesday.