Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s Election Lawsuit in Wisconsin

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.”

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.

, 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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