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Originally published on December 14, 2020 7:59 pm
It was close but in the end, the conservative-led Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump campaign s bid to throw out more than 220,000 ballots from two Democratic county strongholds. The move, which came just shortly before Electoral College voters were due to cast their ballots, ensured President-elect Joe Biden s victory.
Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn sided with the court s three liberal members in the 4-3 ruling, finding Trump s legal challenge to change Wisconsin s certified election results unreasonable in the extreme and was filed too late. The challenges raised by the Campaign in this case . come long after the last play or even the last game; the Campaign is challenging the rulebook adopted before the season began, Hagedorn said in the 81-page decision.
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In this Nov. 7, 2020 file photo, supporters react after it was announced that President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Trump at a rally in Milwaukee (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, ending Trump’s legal challenges in state court about an hour before the Electoral College was to meet to cast the state’s 10 votes for Biden.
The court held arguments in the case Saturday, the same day a federal judge dismissed another Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn his loss in Wisconsin. Trump appealed that ruling.
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The Electoral College on Monday confirmed President-elect Joe Biden s victory over President Trump in the November election. Biden received the electoral votes of the battleground states where Trump tried to overturn the results. That gave him 306 electoral votes, the same number Trump received in 2016 and comfortably above the 270 needed to win. In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed, Biden said. We the people voted. Faith in our institutions held. The integrity of our elections remains intact. And so, now it is time to turn the page. To unite. To heal. Congress is scheduled to meet on Jan. 6 to count the votes. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will then be sworn into office on Jan. 20. [
Wisconsinâs Supreme Court denies a last-ditch Trump effort to toss 200,000 votes from Milwaukee and Madison.
Election observers, right, watching election officials during the recount of ballots in Milwaukee last month.Credit.Tannen Maury/EPA, via Shutterstock
Dec. 14, 2020
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday denied President Trumpâs attempt to invalidate more than 200,000 votes in the stateâs two biggest Democratic bastions for the second time this month.
The ruling ends the presidentâs efforts to overturn the result of the election just hours before the Electoral College is set to cast the stateâs 10 votes for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.