Liberal Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford has launched the first TV ads of her campaign, one touting her work fighting crime and others knocking conservative rival Brad Schimel as “too extreme” to serve as a justice.

Crawford’s campaign said it’s a seven-figure buy that will run statewide on broadcast and cable TV. But it didn’t release any other details.

Schimel, a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge, started his first TV ad of the campaign last week. It included a line that Schimel led the sexual assault kit initiative, clearing 4,000 backlogged kits so survivors could “finally get justice.” 

The new Crawford ad knocking her opponent says Schimel “let 6,000 rape kits sit untested for two years, while survivors waited for justice.” The narrator adds Schimel “let domestic abuses walk with no jail time” and is “so corrupt he gave a plea deal to a man caught with thousands of files of child pornography – featuring children as young as six – after getting thousands in campaign contributions from the man’s lawyer.”

The spot concludes with the narrator proclaiming Schimel too “extreme” for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The narrator in the second ad says Crawford locked up violent criminals as a prosecutor, kept them off the streets as a judge and is “the leader who fought for abortion rights.”

The narrator adds she’ll “look at the facts and uphold the law” on the state Supreme Court.

Crawford closes the spot “being a judge is really pretty simple. There’s right and there’s wrong. And I’ll always do the right thing for Wisconsin.” 

A third ad accuses Schimel of wanting to “bring back the 1849 law that bans all abortions with no exceptions for rape or incest.”

The narrator in a third ad says Schimel gave plea deals to child molesters, “let domestic abusers walk with no jail time” and allowed 6,000 rape test kits to sit untested for two years.