MADISON, WI (WSAU) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be faced with a potentially major election decision before voters head to the polls in November prompting two Justices to pen a letter on Thursday warning of political influence on the court.
According to the New York Post, the court recently decided to accept the DNC’s petition to prevent Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein from appearing on the ballot in the Badger State by contesting the validity of her electors promoting Justices Rebecca Bradley and Annette Ziegler to write their dissent letter, saying, “The (liberal) majority steps beyond its neutral role to lawyer the case on behalf of the DNC, seemingly facilitating an expedited review of this original action.”
The legal dispute came to the forefront last week when Wisconsin DNC deputy operations director David Strang filed a complaint with the state challenging Stein’s ballot access claiming that the party violated state election law because it lacked certified electors to run. Following the dismissal of the complaint by Wisconsin’s top elections authorities, Strang filed a petition to remove Stein from the ballot and brought the case before the state’s liberal majority Supreme Court.
Stein’s campaign manager, Jason Call, told the Post that the campaign does not intend to go away quietly saying, “We are retaining legal counsel and will fight this. We will have a response brief filed by the egregiously short deadline of 5 p.m. Friday,” and continued by thanking Justices Bradley and Ziegler saying, “We appreciate the dissenting opinion of the SCOWIS that the timeline imposed is too short, and our opinion is that the timeline was politically motivated by the liberal majority on the court.”
“We will do the same in every state where Democrats sue to keep us off the ballot. One of our goals now is to punish the anti-Democrats for their use of ‘lawfare’ in elections. People deserve better than this out of the political system in a democracy,” Call concluded.
Wisconsin has had four of the past six presidential elections decided by less than 1% of the total vote, or roughly 20,000 while Stein won over 30,000 votes in Wisconsin during the 2016 presidential election. The latest polls show Vice President Kamala Harris has surged in recent weeks but is currently either tied or up by just one percentage point on average over former President Trump in the Badger State.
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