The attorney general of Wisconsin filed a last minute appeal to the Supreme Court of the State a few days after a court of appeal rejected his request to prevent the billionaire chief Elon Musk from giving checks of $ 1 million to two people to the candidate of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin Brad Schimel’s Green Bay Rally.
An appeal judge rejected the offer of Democrat Joshua Kaul on Saturday for an emergency injunction, while Schimel – a former republican prosecutor and current Waukesha judge – faces the liberal juristic Susan Crawford in the officially non -supporter race to fill a seat in the Bleu Tribunal.
Kaul asked the Liberal majority court 4-3 to make a decision “as soon as possible but at the latest the event scheduled for Sunday evening”.
Musk supported publicly and contributed millions of dollars to Schimel, and Kaul argued that the competition violates the electoral laws of the state. The technology magnate was also criticized for making a similar offer in Pennsylvania during the 2024 presidential election.
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The candidates of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford were seen before a televised debate, on March 12, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP photo / Morry Gass)
There, Governor Josh Shapiro told NBC during the campaign season he had found the behavior of Musk “deeply worrying”. The former Commonwealth Attorney General added that such offers are something that the police should “take a look”.
In the Kaul file, he asked the Supreme Court of Wisconsin for an injunction, alleging “[r]The offer of espondents to pay $ 1 million to two Wisconsin voters, conditioned to have voted in the next elections, constitutes a violation of the law of Wisconsin § 12.11, which prohibits offering “ anything of value ” in exchange for “vot[ing] or abstain[ing] voting. “”
The emergency base for his injunction request is therefore rational, said Kaul.
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“This court should grant the request for initial action and deliver an immediate temporary injunction (1) prohibiting respondents from promoting the gift of a million dollars more to the participants of the event scheduled for Sunday March 30, 2025, (2) prohibiting all actions by repercussions 12.11.”
Musk said in a statement on Friday that he wanted to “clarify a previous [X] Publish “on the question.
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“”[E]Ntrance is limited to those who signed the petition in opposition to militant judges. I will also give checks of $ 1 million to 2 people to be a spokesperson for the petition, “said Musk.
The president of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, Ben Wikler, told Milwaukee Journé-otinel that he had seemed that Musk had removed a previous post to cover “proof of his crime”.
The key to the race for year, scheduled for Tuesday, could have national implications, according to the two parties.
Supporters of Schimel previously warned Fox News Digital that two members of the Republican Congress – the chairman of the Bryan Steil Chamber’s Administration Committee in Kenosha and representative Derrick Van Orden of the dog – could see their districts intentionally redrawn in an attempt to rescue them to oust the following office if Crawford wins.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
