The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to invalidate the more than 200,000 votes held in the state’s two democracies, shortening another legal route by which the outgoing president sought to overturn the election results.
A four- to three-vote court ruling rejecting the case halted part of multiple attempts by President Trump and his supporters to keep Wisconsin’s entire absentee voting system intact, which Trump called campaigning a state violation of law.
Three liberal judges of the court and a conscientious objector who joined him said the Wisconsin Supreme Court was not the right place for a Trump campaign trial and indicated it would dismiss the lawsuit in the state’s lower court.
“We also act as a judicial institution to adhere to time-tested judicial standards, but – and especially – in high-profile cases,” writes Justice Brian Hedgord, who sided with the Liberals. “Obeying the law that governs challenges for election results poses no risk to the rule of law.”
Late Thursday night, Trump campaign Wisconsin lawyer James Troupe Papis filed new, separate lawsuits in Dan County and Milwaukee County that the Supreme Court refused to hear in a case invalidating a vote in two Democratic constituencies.
But Mr. Truro Peace and Trump campaign president-elect Joseph R. in Wisconsin. Biden Jr. is running in time for any legal action to change the reality of his 20,000-vote victory. The deadline for overcoming legal challenges to the state’s credentials is Tuesday, and the Electoral Rally College Ledge is due to meet on December 14 for an oral vote to make Mr. Biden the next president.
While Mr. Trump has falsely claimed that the presidential election was “rigged” in many states, his campaign and his Republican allies have not argued that the election in Wisconsin was rigged. Instead they have argued that the systems and rules Wisconsin used for its last 11 statewide elections are illegal.
For the past two weeks, Mr. Trump has argued that the acceptance of individual absentee ballots by municipal clerks before election day violated state law – even though local election officials were acting under the direction of the Wisconsin Election Commission, a bipartisan body that oversees state elections. .
“I have yet to see a credible claim of fraudulent activity during this election,” Dean Nudson, a Republican member of the Election Commission, told a body meeting Tuesday. “There have been no allegations of fraud in the Trump campaign. These are disputes in terms of law. ”
The Trump lawsuit also argued that the municipal clerk should not be allowed to fill out address forms for witnesses for absentee ballots, which the Election Commission allowed them to do. State law requires absentee voters to sign witnesses on their ballots. The lawsuit asked the court to invalidate ballots collected by the Madison Municipal Clerk at an October gathering in the city’s parks, although those programs were blessed by the Election Commission.
The Trump campaign only challenged voting in Milwaukee County and Dan County, which is home to Madison, the state capital and the main university on the Wisconsin campus. The two counties are the largest and most democratic in the state.
The campaign filed a similar lawsuit in Milwaukee federal court late Wednesday night seeking to undo the state election result and the votes of Wisconsin’s 10 Electoral College College Legislature were determined by its Republican-controlled state legislature. Two other lawsuits – one in federal courts and another pending before the Wisconsin Supreme Court – also seek to challenge the state election.
Some senior Wisconsin senior Republican officials believe the Trump campaign’s arguments will lead to a reversal of the election result and that the state’s 10 electoral votes will go to Mr. Trump instead of Mr. Biden.
“The problem for the courts is – even if they accept the president’s lawyers – what is the solution?” Former government official Scott Wal Wal, loyal to Trump, wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
Wisconsin law, as Mr. Waker noted, is a wise appointment that if municipalities decide after an election that an absentee voter should not vote, the election clerk has to pick up the irregular ballot and cancel it, because there is no way. No. To connect the poll with the voting voter.
The Trump campaign lawsuit, if it had been successful, would not have disqualified the required vote in the way it claims to be illegal. The number of votes from the two most democratic counties in the state would have been reduced without addressing the ballots cast equally in the other 70 counties of the state.
Alan F્યુhrer contributed to the report.
