President Trump’s legal team on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider challenging an earlier decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to dismiss a claim of irregularities in the use of absentee ballots during his 2020 presidential campaign.
Trump campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani applied for a Certiorari Week article after the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 4-6 to reject Trump’s campaign claims seeking to overturn state election results. The president’s legal team asked the Supreme Court for a speedy review of the matter before Congress meets on January 6 to certify the results of the Electoral College Ledge.
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“Sadly, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to consider the merits of our claim in its 3-decision decision. This ‘Certificate Petition’ tells them to consider our claims, if approved would change the outcome of the election in Wisconsin,” Trump said. The campaign’s attorney, Jim Traroupe, said in a statement. “Three members of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, including the chief justice, agreed with many of the president’s claims in a written submission to that court’s Dec. 14 order.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down President-elect Joe Biden in a December 14 Trump campaign lawsuit just hours before he received the state’s 10 electoral votes. Trump attorneys have sought to invalidate more than 221,000 ballots in Milwaukee and Dan counties, both of which are Democratic strongholds. Biden won Wisconsin by nearly 20,600 votes.
The court determined that three of the four lawsuits included in the Trump lawsuit were filed too late for consideration in the election process. The fourth claim was determined to be without merit.
The Trump campaign said the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision “allowed more than 50,000 illegal absentee ballots in violation of Article II of the U.S. Constitution and Wisconsin law.”
The petition cites a number of instances of allegations of irregularities in the Trump campaign, including the “indefinite limited status of the state” and the “sen, abusing the absentee ballots of more than 3,000,000 people who failed to provide identification.” Includes information needed on their envelopes.
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On Dec. 20, Trump’s legal team filed a separate petition in the Supreme Court over allegations of fraud in the use of the mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court has yet to indicate whether it will expedite the presentation of the challenge as requested. By campaign.
The president has continued to challenge election results in many states even as the Biden team moves forward with the transition process. Biden is set to open on January 20.
The Associated Press contributes to this report.
