WISCONSIN / VIRGINIA — September 2026 — Elizabeth A. Fitzgibbon, an Independent candidate for U.S. Congress in Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District, and Robert P. Murray, a Republican candidate for Virginia’s 4th Congressional District, are running separate campaigns in different states and under different political affiliations. Their paths toward Congress, however, intersected through Fitzgibbon’s family court case, in which Murray became directly involved.

Fitzgibbon says her case exposed a broader problem of constitutional accountability after a court lost the parties’ final Marital Settlement Agreement and later purported to recreate it. After pursuing the matter through the state appellate system, the U.S. Supreme Court, and subsequent federal civil-rights litigation, Fitzgibbon says the experience led her to examine the federal structures underlying problems Americans encounter in everyday life.

That examination became the foundation of her congressional campaign and its twelve priority areas, which she describes as a systematic audit of federal government structures, policies, and mechanisms through the framework of transparency, accountability, and affordability.

Murray, whose direct involvement gave him a different vantage point on the case and its aftermath, says the experience led him to examine the broader constitutional and institutional questions raised by what he witnessed. Although their campaigns and political affiliations remain separate, the two candidates say they arrived at the same fundamental question:

What happens when the institutions entrusted with protecting our constitutional rights are not meaningfully accountable when those rights are violated?

They are now seeking to hear from individuals and organizations with firsthand experience, professional expertise, research, documentation, or other perspectives concerning family-court reform, parental rights, due process, judicial accountability, and domestic-relations law.