Judge Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, has raised $24 million for the April 1 election, a record for an American judicial candidate, her campaign said Monday.

Her campaign fund — including $17 million raised from Feb. 4 to March 17 alone — approaches that ordinarily expected of a candidate for governor and surpasses those of other recent candidates for statewide office in Wisconsin.

But it is likely to be just a fraction of the total spent on Crawford’s behalf in the contest, which will be the nation’s first major test of both parties’ enthusiasm since President Donald Trump took office and will determine which party holds a majority on the state’s top court.

Most of the money in the race will be spent by super political action committees or funneled through Wisconsin’s political parties. State law permits the parties to raise unlimited sums, which they can then transfer to endorsed candidates in unlimited amounts.

Candidates for the court, however, face limits of $20,000 per individual donor. Crawford’s campaign said it had received contributions from 113,000 donors since she entered the race over the summer.

Crawford faces Brad Schimel, a conservative judge who received Trump’s endorsement Friday night and who is being aided by millions of dollars of spending from super PACs affiliated with Elon Musk, the billionaire who is leading the president’s effort to cut costs across the federal government.

The Supreme Court race has already drawn $80 million in total spending as of Friday, according to WisPolitics, a political news outlet in the state. With just over a week to go, it is by far the most expensive judicial race in American history, topping the $55 million spent on the state’s last Supreme Court election, in 2023.

The record sums come in part because of the enormous stakes. Liberals now hold a 4-3 majority on the court, which in upcoming years is likely to rule on a host of issues such as abortion rights and the state’s election procedures, including congressional redistricting.

A liberal justice, Ann Walsh Bradley, is not seeking reelection. The winner will earn a 10-year term.

Crawford’s fundraising total is approaching the amount spent by the state’s last Republican nominee for governor, Tim Michels, whose campaign spent $28.5 million during his 2022 loss to Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.

Schimel has yet to reveal his fundraising numbers from the latest reporting period.