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Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s Election Lawsuit in Wisconsin
Epoch Times ^
| 12/12/2020
| Janita Kan
Posted on 12/12/2020 6:52:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A federal judge on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit in Wisconsin that sought to declare election officials had acted unconstitutionally during the 2020 presidential election.
U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig, a Trump appointee, declined to rule in favor of Trump, opining that the president had failed to show Wisconsin election officials had violated his right under the Electors Clause in the U.S. constitution.
Instead, Ludwig said he found that Wisconsin’s presidential electors were being chosen “in the very manner directed by the Legislature,” as required by the constitution.
The president filed the lawsuit against the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) and other state officials on Dec. 2, alleging that they violated the constitution when the WEC issued guidance on “missing or incorrect absentee ballot witness certificate addresses, voters claiming indefinitely confined status, and absentee ballot drop boxes.”
The lawsuit argues that WEC lacked the power to issue guidance that violated the state’s own election laws as passed by the Wisconsin state legislature.
To remedy the situation, Trump asked the court to declare that election officials had violated the constitution and to order the Wisconsin Legislature to provide appropriate relief pursuant to Article II, Section 1.2 in the constitution.
“Plaintiff’s requests for relief are even more extraordinary,” Ludwig wrote in his opinion (pdf).
He concluded that the president’s claims that election officials violated the Electors Clause “fail as a matter of law and fact.”
“This is an extraordinary case. A sitting president who did not prevail in his bid for reelection has asked for federal court help in setting aside the popular vote based on disputed issues of election administration, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred,” the judge wrote. “This Court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits.”
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: federaljudge; lawsuit; searchandfind; searchworks; wisconsin
NOTE:
This comes on the same day the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard a separate election case filed by the president against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
To: SeekAndFind
Glad Trump got all these great judges appointed.
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:04:40 PM PST
by
Luke21
(Elections you say? We get them next election? )
To: SeekAndFind
Who advised Trump on this judge??? He should be taking names, so we all know who is corrupt.
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:05:32 PM PST
by
originalbuckeye
('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
To: SeekAndFind
Thaks for the link to the opiniojn!
“n, the Wisconsin Legislature has
directed the WEC to issue advisory opinions, Wis. Stat. §5.05(6a), and “[p]romulgate rules …
applicable to all jurisdictions for the purpose of interpreting or implementing the laws regulating
the conduct of elections or election campaigns.” “
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:06:34 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
To: Luke21
Glad Trump got all these great judges appointed. Yeah. Integrity? Loyalty? Service to the citizens? Trying to see if an election outcome is to be trusted?
More like "Hey, everybody's doin' it. Who am I to buck the trend. Dump on Trump."
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:12:05 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: originalbuckeye
Notice when Dems appoint SCOTUS justice (Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsberg....) they stay Dem and left leaning all the way.
Same at district level such as blocking the Trump pause on terrorist nations’ unvetted illegals or using funds to build the wall to enforce existing immigration border laws. Dem judges slapped restraining orders within a day. Sanctuary city? Fine with them.
Why don’t conservatives stay true? Maybe Roberts and Kavanaugh have some insights. But won’t tell us.
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:17:05 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: SeekAndFind
Well, I guess we’re just about past the “jury box”, eh?
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:31:00 PM PST
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: SeekAndFind
, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred
the only issue he could have raised prior to vote was the mailing of ballots. The discrepancies, ‘ballot fixing’, backdating, machines that can’t replicate counts, dead people voting, illegals voting, etc, occurred at, as part of the counting process, or after the vote occurred, so could not be discovered beforehand
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:37:59 PM PST
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
To: blueplum
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:44:04 PM PST
by
linMcHlp
To: SeekAndFind
"disputed issues of election administration" There is 'damning with faint praise', and in this case, 'praising with faint damnation.'
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:45:29 PM PST
by
tinyowl
(A is A)
To: SeekAndFind
Another swamp thing judge.
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posted on
12/12/2020 7:48:58 PM PST
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
To: blueplum
Sorry, we cannot find the suspect guilty because you should have known before the crime was committed that he was going to rob the bank.
Afterwards is too late because he has already robbed the bank.
Verdict: Not guilty by reason of the court's stupidity in their logic.....
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posted on
12/12/2020 8:36:44 PM PST
by
HotHunt
To: frank ballenger
Why don’t conservatives stay true? It’s like asking why Christian married men cheat on their wives? Conservative or Christian, doesn’t matter what they call themselves but their actions define them. Mitt Romney is labeled a republican but we all know he’s a spineless coward and a sleaze all. The weakness of the Republican Party is that they never hold their own accountable and therefore the corruption spreads.
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posted on
12/12/2020 8:44:37 PM PST
by
dragonblustar
( If evil wins, they complain long and loud, though their own apathy produced the undesirable result)
To: blueplum
Exactly what I was thinking. He couldn’t have possibly addressed issues that didn’t occur until election night.
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posted on
12/12/2020 9:04:19 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
To: SeekAndFind
Unfortunately Trump got many of the proposed judges from conservative “think tanks”. These think tanks are mostly comprised of Never Trumpers in disguise.
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