In a politically motivated investigation into “false electors,” Wisconsin’s far-left attorney general bowed to communist force and filed claims against former president Donald Trump’s members. The fees are dropped just a few days after a Manhattan bunny court found Trump criminal in a Soviet-style show test, which is odd, though.  ,
Attorney General Josh Kaul held a packed press conference on Tuesday on the actions of the State Capitol to make known felony charges related to the Trump campaign’s plan to create a slate of alternate votes in the event a recall in the hotly debated swing position or a decision by a court that found the Republican leader had defeated Democrat opponent Joe Biden.  ,
Kaul, as Democrats demanded, alleges attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis engaged in a scheme to enlist 10 “false electors” to help Trump’s alleged attempt to overturn Biden’s victory in the Badger State. The attorney general’s accusations against the attorneys, along with political operative Michael Roman, smear a state forgery-uttering law accusing the defendants of knowingly promoting a false slate of voters as real, or at least uttering as much.  ,
If found guilty of the Class H felony, the three men each face a maximum sentence of up to six years in prison and a fine of$ 10, 000.  ,
” This is an investigation into alleged criminal conduct, and we’re gonna follow the facts wherever they lead”, Kaul said. According to Kaul,” The investigation is not focused on any particular person, but on those facts, and what information we can gather, and then making a determination based on the law.”  ,
Change of Heart
Democrats incensed and have been demanding the long-awaited charges, but Democrats have long complained that Democrats have pushed back against Trump and his allies. Alternate electors also face criminal counts in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and, most recently, Arizona.  ,
Kaul had long maintained his silence regarding potential charges, having previously represented him at Marc Elias ‘ former law firm. In late April, Kaul spokeswoman Gillian Drummond told USA Today that the office would not” confirm or deny the existence of an investigation, except in unique public safety circumstances”. She did state that Kaul “believes that those who commit crimes in an effort to unlawfully subvert the outcome of an election  should be held accountable.”
Despite the fact that the Wisconsin Elections Commission had twice rejected complaints from a leftist lawfare group about the Republican alternate electors, the leftist AG was receiving a lot of criticism for failing to deliver the heads of Trump’s allies on a political platter. In a surprising twist, the Wisconsin Department of Justice claimed that Republicans who attempted to cast Trump’s ballots did not break any election laws.  ,
According to the Associated Press, Kaul’s agency” concluded that Republicans were legitimately trying to preserve Trump’s legal standing as courts were deciding whether he or Biden won the election.”
So why the sudden heart change? At Kaul’s celebratory press conference, it’s not known whether those reporters asked that question.  ,
According to a lawyer who spoke with The Federalist, Kaul appeared to have found an opening after a Manhattan jury last week found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of allegedly tampering with an on-screen prostitute’s nondisclosure agreement and filing an open. According to the source, Kaul has a good chance of accumulating convictions in a liberal Dane County Court if Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is convicted of a lemon of a case that legal experts claim is easily reversible on appeal. Like Manhattan, Madison, Wisconsin, — the state capital city and the seat of Dane County — is one of the deepest blue communities in the country.  ,
‘ Weaponizing Wisconsin’s Judiciary ‘
In regards to Democrats ‘ prosecutions against Republican alternate electors, Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said,” I think these are political prosecutions that are outside of the law.” Keep in mind that what these people did in Arizona, Georgia, and other places was to find alternative electors who would be ready as a backup plan if the election was decided to be overturned, despite the historical precedent for the moment.
There’s nothing illegal about that, von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Election Commission, said.  ,
As The Federalist recently reported, leftists have tried — and failed — to push their phony “fake electors” lawfare scheme elsewhere.  ,
In Pennsylvania, even far- left Democrat Gov. The facts forced Josh Shapiro, who was the Keystone State’s attorney general at the time, to acknowledge that “our office does not believe this meets the legal standards for forgery.” If the courts later determine that the Trump alternate electors are the “duly elected and qualified electors,” their certification of the election for Trump would be regarded as valid.  ,
Democratic Attorney General Raul Torrez in New Mexico examined the Republican alternative electors plan, finding that the conduct did not warrant a charge.  ,
Kaul claims that Wisconsin is unique because the alternate electors there did n’t include conditional language stating that they were merely attempting to protect Trump’s claim to the electors in the event that circumstances change. Former Wisconsin Republican Party chairman Andrew Hitt has claimed that the alternate electors were” tricked” into believing this. According to Wisconsin Public Radio, Chesebro and Troupis agreed they would not create alternate slates of electors in the future without being “certified as the persons elected as presidential electors under state law” but that these claims were at the heart of a civil lawsuit.  ,
The leftist lawfare plan in Wisconsin, as elsewhere, was to extract a confession of wrongdoing from their “election- denying” political enemies— and$ 2.4 million. They did n’t get what they were hoping for on either account. Troupis, a former judge and long- time attorney for the Republican Party, at the time said he signed the agreement” to avoid endless litigation, and nothing in today’s settlement constitutes an admission of fault, nor should it” . ,
In a statement, the attorney cited Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig’s report fully supporting the Trump team’s actions in Wisconsin.  ,
He draws the conclusion that, as we did at the time, it was a reasonable course of action and anticipated that the Trump-Pence electors would cast alternate elector ballots given the results of the 2020 recount were appealable ( and were appealed ) to the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, Professor Lessig concludes that’ To find civil liability ]as the Biden Elector Plaintiffs sought here ] … would, in my view, violate the Supremacy Clause of the United State Constitution.'”
Troupis noted that Kaul’s DOJ reached a similar conclusion in its 2022 opinion of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.  ,
Wisconsin’s senior U. S. senator, Ron Johnson, called Kaul’s change of heart “outrageous” . ,
” Now Democrats are weaponizing Wisconsin’s judiciary”, the Republican wrote Tuesday on his X account. According to Democrat tyranny,” Apparently conservative attorneys advising clients is prohibited.”
” Democrats are turning America into a banana republic”.
Matt Kittle covers The Federalist’s senior elections coverage. An award- winning investigative reporter and 30- year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
