Trump Campaign Asks Supreme Court to Set Aside Wisconsin’s Election
The Trump campaign announced Dec. 29 that it was asking the Supreme Court to set aside Wisconsin’s presidential election, and to allow the Republican-controlled legislature to choose how to cast its 10 electoral votes.
The campaign asks in its filing (pdf) that the Supreme Court declare the state election “failed.” It also asks justices to allow the Wisconsin Legislature to appoint presidential electors to replace those pledged to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Trump lost the battleground state to the former vice president by about 21,000 votes, according to official records.
Making a list, checking it twice â¦No, not Santa.
Itâs the state Legislature that should start to pore over some of the heated disputes over state election practices and see if they need a tune-up.
You know the ones weâre talking about â the ones that ended up with President Donald Trump calling Wisconsinâs elections a fraud and heading to court to overturn his 21,000-vote loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
Last week, Trump was still at it, ripping conservative state Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn for siding with three liberal justices in denying the Trump lawsuit. Hagedorn told the plaintiffs if they were unhappy with election practices, which had been in effect for many years, they should have gone to court earlier and not after the ballots had been counted.
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Scott Walker‘s attorney and helped write the Act 10 law that decimated public employee unions. He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society and helped found a private school that bars its doors not just to gay staff but gay students. And he was elected with overwhelming support from Republicans in a hard-fought election in 2019. But he had news for members of that party.
“We’re a nonpartisan court. I mean, I certainly was elected with the support of many conservatives, but I am not a Republican justice on the court,” he noted in response to questions from the New York Times.