MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected 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 ruling came after the court held arguments Saturday, the same day a federal judge dismissed another Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn his loss in the state. Trump appealed that ruling.
Trump sought to have more than 221,000 ballots disqualified in Dane and Milwaukee counties, the state’s two most heavily Democratic counties. He wanted to disqualify absentee ballots cast early and in-person, saying there wasn’t a proper written request made for the ballots; absentee ballots cast by people who claimed “indefinitely confined” status; absentee ballots collected by poll workers at Madison parks; and absentee ballots where clerks filled in missing information on ballot envelopes.
Liberal Justice Jill Karofsky blasted Trumps’ case during Saturday’s hearing, saying it “smacks of racism” and was “un-American.” Conservative justices voiced some concerns about how certain ballots were cast, while also questioning whether they could or should disqualify votes only in two counties.
Biden won Wisconsin by about 20,600 votes, a margin of 0.6% that withstood a Trump-requested recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, the two with the most Democratic votes. Trump did not challenge any ballots cast in the counties he won.
Trump and his allies have suffered dozens of defeats in Wisconsin and across the country in lawsuits that rely on unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud and election abuse. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Texas lawsuit that sought to invalidate Biden’s win by throwing out millions of votes in four battleground states, including Wisconsin.
Also Saturday, former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a federal case she lost in Wisconsin seeking to order the GOP-controlled Legislature to declare Trump the winner. Powell has also lost similar cases in Georgia and Arizona.
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The Republican National Committee, well before the election, should have filed lawsuits all over the Country. They should have seen this “bull” coming. Secondly, and I said it before, heavily armed Federal Marshals should have been at polling places and Post Offices, with an equal amount of Democrat and Republican poll watchers. But the RNC plays nice, nice with the communists and everyone knows how that turns / turned out. Everyone is now going to witness, the warp speed destruction of our Country.
the beloved RNC will get no more of my money period.
for the way they have treated president trump even before he was elected.
they have no spine.
For almost two decades any money I have given has gone directly to candidate’s campaigns and never, ever to the Republican Party or any of their committees to re-elect House or Senate members.
At the rate these cases keep getting tossed, the ONLY WAY i see trump staying in office, and our nation being saved, is if he invokes the Insurrection act.. OTHERWISE we’re toast.. AND SO IS HE!
The sad thing backpacker …is… President Trump warned the useless RNC about this very thing, urging them to act months ago. What these morons don’t understand …if Trump goes down… the Republicans go down and will cease to exist. But… on the bright side for the useless republicans.. they’ll be able to continue to sell out the country for their own financial gains.
I DON’T consider that a bright side, for US at least…..
The corrupt democrats knew the courts would side with them. Their heist is nearly complete and well-executed.
Either that, or their THREATS to other judges, got the scotus to cave..