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Wisconsin Supreme Court will not hear the latest attempt at a Trump lawsuit.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald J. Trump’s last-minute bid to upend the state’s election results and refused to consider his legal team’s claims of hundreds of thousands of unlawfully cast ballots.

Trump lost Wisconsin to President-elect Joseph R. Biden by 20,682 votes, according to the official count certified on Monday.

In a split decision, the majority of the court rebuffed the Trump lawsuit – not on the merits of the case, but because his lawyers broke with procedure and skipped over the lower courts, taking the matter directly to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Trump’s attorneys argued there simply wasn’t enough time to begin the case in the lower courts and potentially battle through the appellate court before getting to the Supreme Court.

The Electoral College is scheduled to convene Dec. 14, when each state’s electors will cast their votes in representation of their state election results. Congress is scheduled to count the votes on Jan. 6.

Four of the state’s seven Supreme Court justices denied Trump’s petition on the basis that the law is clear in requiring lawsuits be initiated in lower courts – state or federal, depending on the nature of the claims.

“I understand the impulse to immediately address the legal questions presented by this petition to ensure the recently completed election was conducted in accordance with the law. But challenges to election results are also governed by law,” Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote.

“We do well as a judicial body to abide by time-tested judicial norms, even — and maybe especially — in high profile cases,” he went on to say. “Following this law is not disregarding our duty, as some of my colleagues suggest. It is following the law.”

Wisconsin Supreme Court will not hear the latest attempt at a Trump lawsuit.The Trump lawsuit sought to have about 221,000 ballots cast in Milwaukee and Dane counties disqualified for various causes.

Chief among them, that paper requests for mail-in ballots were not on file for 170,140 mail-in ballots cast, even though those requests are largely made online now.

Trump also challenged the fact that 28,395 voters were allowed to declare themselves eligible to cast mail-in ballots because of being “indefinitely confined,” a practice the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled was legal in March.

He further sought to have ballots tossed out that were submitted at temporary drop-off stations set up officially by the city of Milwaukee.

And the Trump team argued in favor of cancelling out 5,517 mail-in ballots on which election clerks filled in missing address information on their certification envelopes.

Trump previously requested a recount of the votes in Milwaukee and Dane counties, the only two Wisconsin counties that favor the Democratic Party. The recount resulted in a zero net gain for the incumbent.

One of the Supreme Court justices who disagreed with the majority and said they would have taken up the Trump lawsuit also said its ultimate goal of invalidating votes might be beyond the court’s discretion.

Referring to election clerks filling in missing address information on mail-in ballot envelopes, which has reportedly been condoned by the Wisconsin Elections Commission for years, Chief Justice Patience Roggensack wrote that, “we, as the law declaring court, owe it to the public to declare whether WEC’s advice is incorrect. However, doing so does not necessarily lead to striking absentee ballots that were cast by following incorrect WEC advice.”

“The remedy Petitioners seek may be out of reach for a number of reasons.,” she said.

According to a report by The Associated Press, the president’s legal team said they were in the process of filing the Trump lawsuit in federal court and “expected to be back before the Supreme Court very soon.”

Trump’s Wisconsin lawsuit is one of several he’s filed in numerous states in an attempt to overturn election results. Similar actions have been filed in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona, all states the president lost. None of the lawsuits have been successful.

Trump has refused to concede the race despite the fact that Biden garnered 51.3% of the national popular vote and is on course to receive 306 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 232.

Do you think the Wisconsin Supreme Court is right in its refusal to hear Trump’s election results lawsuit? Share with us in the comments below.

The Wisconsin Election Results Lawsuit is Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Anthony S. Evers, et al., Appeal No. 2020AP001971-OA, in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

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2 thoughts onWisconsin Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Trump Lawsuit Over Election Results

  1. DAN BEILMAN says:

    Sounds to me that an Honest Judge no matter what party they are affilated with would look at and hear all the evidence before making a stance. That reaction only says to the tax payers that you are a big part of the corruption problem

  2. Valerie Dunham says:

    I don’t agree with this court. If there are legitimate reasons for the court to look at it should be done as quickly as possible. All information should be looked over before making a decision.

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