
On Sunday, Elon Musk distributed $1 million checks to two voters from Wisconsin, who he claims will be the two loudest proponent of his political organization. He did this before a Supreme Court of Wisconsin election that he deemed pivotal for the energy mogul Trump and the “future of the civilization”. Musk walked on stage in Green Bay with a yellow styrofoam cheesehead hat and stated that the campaigning for the judicial race has overspent USD 20 million to make it incredibly important for the country.
Musk said, “The House majority is now razor thin,” which shows how likely the state high court might consider taking new districting. This may help Democrats gain two more seats in the House of Representatives. “And if the (Wisconsin) Supreme Court is able to redraw the districts, then they will gerrymander the district and will make Wisconsin lose two seats on the Republican side,” Musk added. According to him, “Then they will try to stop all the government reforms we are getting done, for you the American People.” A Musk-hating democrat attorney general tried to contest two voters receiving Musk’s checks; a ruling which was decided just moments before the rally was scheduled to start.
Both lower courts had dismissed the suit by Josh Kaul, a Democrat, who claims Musk's offer infringes on state law. “Wisconsin law forbids giving anything of value for the purposes of influencing a person’s vote,” Kaul said in his submission. “Elon Musk did that.” The state Supreme Court, who currently has a 4-3 liberal majority, would not accept the case as an original action. The court did not provide a reason for their ruling.
Kaul could not respond to the question about the judge's order immediately.
Musk's lawyers claimed in their court documents that he was exercising his free speech rights with the giveaways and seeking to limit it was an infringement of the Wisconsin constitution and the American one.
Musk's lawyers contended in their court documents that payments were “meant to foster a grassroots movement against activist judges and not to promote or discredit any candidates.”
On Tuesday, Wisconsin will have the Supreme Court election that is heavily fought over because of the existing majority of Liberals at 4-3.
The Democratic candidate has received support from all four liberal justices of the court and that candidate is Judge Susan Crawford from Dane County.
About three hours before the start of the rally, Musk's lawyers filed a motion to disqualify two liberal justices who have supported Crawford's campaign, Jill Karofsky and Rebecca Dallet. His lawyers claimed their representation of Crawford gives them “the appearance of conflict of interest that would be inappropriate.” If they did disqualify, that would result in the remaining composition of the court being 3:2 in favor of conservatism.
Both of the justices said no to the motion and said that they would provide the rationale for that decision in due time.
One conservative covering the court has endorsed Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel, who is also endorsed by Trump and Musk. Schimel put on a hat saying “Make America Great Again” during his campaign on Sunday.
Musk, alongside the organizations he leads has funded Schimel’s campaign for the judgeship to the tune of over 20 million dollars.
In a televised interview, Schimel stated that he doesn’t have control over “any spending done by outside parties like Musk or any one of his ilk”, and in his version all Trump needed to know was would he “refuse to support activist judges” and what is the extent of the law he is prepared to accept.
“I have committed to anyone, be it President Trump, Elon Musk, any donors or supporters and voters in Wisconsin, Schimel claimed during Fox News Sunday. “That is my commitment.” Schimmell will face off against Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz in the general election. Both candidates are from the Wisconsin Supreme Court, so Protasiewicz, voted abruptly and at times blindly, as well as a substantial sum of $81 million was spent in this election, blowing away all historical records for spending on a judicial election. Marked liberal spending has occurred within the framework of an election campaign.
Musk's political action committee conducted almost the same strategy prior to election last year, offering $1 million a day to voters in Wisconsin, as well as five other pivot states, who agreed to vote for the First Amendment and Second Amendments. A judge in Pennsylvania has said that the prosecutors did not meet the burden of proving that this attempt constituted an illegal lottery and allowed the plan to be executed until election day.
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