The Supreme Court of Wisconsin is scheduled to hear another Trump post-election suit at noon Central Time—roughly five minutes from now.

It's thrown out three post-election suits already. This one's being live-streamed.

Link at the bottom of the preview: lawandcrime.com/2020-election/…
The Zoom call is assembling.

As a reminder, Trump and Pence are gunning after Wisconsin's voters in Milwaukee and Dane Counters, where most of the state's people of color live.

That's a pattern: lawandcrime.com/2020-election/…
Trump and Pence's lawyer Jim Troupis is up:

"Big cases depend on big principles," he begins.
Justice Karofsky interrupts:

"All the will of all the voters, including the will of the voters in Dane and Milwaukee Counties, count, am I right?"
Justice Karofsky says that these two out of 72 counties have been "targeted" because of their "diverse" populations.

"This lawsuit, Mr. Troupis, smacks of racism," she declares.

"This is not normal."
Justice Karofsky: "I am very interested in knowing one person in Milwaukee County or one person in Dane County who engaged in election fraud."

Troupis ducks the question, names no names, cites code.

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13 Dec
At least 7 Trump appointees rejected his or his allies’ post-election cases:

* USDJ Brett Ludwig (Wisconsin, Trump)
* USDJ Steven Grimberg (Georgia, Lin Wood)
* USCJ Stephanos Bibas (Third Circ., Trump campaign)
* USCJ Barbara Lagoa (11th Circ., Lin Wood)

3 SCOTUS (Paxton)
None have ruled in his favor, and it remains unknown how many of his appointees rejected Mike Kelly’s SCOTUS bid, where the votes are unknown but there were no public dissents.
There may be others that I am forgetting or missing. If so, please let me know.
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12 Dec
Karofsky: "A lot of voters in the state of Wisconsin use this form."

She says that she's looking at it right now, and it's a very detailed form.

She asks him whether voters filling out a form that says application on it are somehow committing fraud.
Karofsky: How would they not be complying with the statute?

Troupis doesn't have a ready answer to that question, pauses, and hazards an answer before the judge interrupts to point out it says "application" on it.

She spells out the word for him.
Correction: Troupis is referring to "WEC" forms, short for Wisconsin Election Commissions.

The accent made it sound as if he was characterizing them as "wack" forms.
Read 26 tweets
11 Dec
E. Jean Carroll goes to court against outgoing Pres. Trump this morning, in a lawsuit accusing the lame duck of defaming her by denying that he raped her.

Trump wants to pause proceedings to appeal the ruling kicking DOJ out, but for now, it's still on. lawandcrime.com/awkward/federa…
Today is an initial telephone conference following Judge Kaplan's ruling that the DOJ can't represent Trump and ordering his personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz back on the docket.

Kasowitz's latest filing from last night: courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
I'll be covering the proceedings live... in the remote, virtual sense of our era.
Read 23 tweets
11 Dec
This is a roll call of the GOP reps who signed a brief supporting Texas AG Ken Paxton's bid to topple elections in their own states, with their names highlighted in yellow.

* @RepRickAllen of Georgia
* @RepJackBergman of Michigan
* @RepBuddyCarter of Georgia

(continued...)
* @RepDrewFerguson of Georgia
* @RepHuizenga of Michigan
* @RepJohnJoyce of Pennsylvania
* @RepFredKeller of Pennsylvania
* @RepMikeKelly of Pennsylvania
* @RepMeuser of Pennsylvania
* @RepMoolenaar of Michigan
* @RepScottPerry of Pennsylvania
* Rep. @GReschenthaler of Pennsylvania
* Rep. @AustinScottGA08 of Georgia
* @CongressmanGT Thompson of Pennsylvania
* @RepTiffany of Wisconsin
* @RepWalberg of Michigan
Read 4 tweets
10 Dec
Meanwhile, federal proceedings are about to begin in another Wisconsin case with Trump as plaintiff.

His appointee U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig is presiding.

(Multiple Trump-appointees have rejected similar suits.)

Follow along with me in the thread.
"Court is now in session."

Bill Bock, representing Trump, introduces himself and co-counsel.

Wisconsin's lawyer is Corey Finkelmeyer.
Charles Curtis, Jr appears for DNC

Joseph Goode appears for NAACP
Read 65 tweets
10 Dec
"Last ‘Kraken’ Slain: Court Notes ‘Federal Judges Do Not Appoint the President,’ Wonders Why Sidney Powell Asked"

Developing with ruling inside. lawandcrime.com/2020-election/… via @lawcrimenews
Fun part of the ruling:

Sidney Powell's team 'Kraken' appeared to have "made up" a "quote" in a legal brief, and the judge noted it because the fabricated quote was from her colleague in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
The 'Kraken' crew wanted the Wisconsin federal judge to order the disclosure of 48 hours of surveillance footage from the TCF Center, a convention center that the ruling notes is in Detroit, Michigan.
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