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'Alternate' Trump electors can face civil lawsuit in Wisconsin, judge rules
Just the News ^ | Updated: August 13, 2023 - 9:34am | Madeleine Hubbard

Posted on 08/13/2023 6:56:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Ten so-called "alternate electors" for former President Donald Trump and two of the former president's attorneys are facing a civil lawsuit in Wisconsin after a judge rejected a motion to dismiss the case.

Two Democratic electors and a voter filed the case seeking $2.4 million from the two attorneys and the alternate GOP electors, arguing that the defendants were part of a pro-Trump conspiracy to overturn his 2020 presidential loss and seeking to disqualify the Republicans from serving as electors again.

Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington scheduled the case for a jury trial in September 2024, just two months before the presidential election in which Trump may be the Republican nominee, The Associated Press reported last week.

Federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment against Trump earlier this month that the former president and his supporters started a scheme in Wisconsin to tap fake electors who could vote for Trump in the electoral college in states where the popular vote went for now-President Joe Biden.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, said he is relying on federal officials to probe what happened in his state, but he is not ruling out a state investigation.

Wisconsin Republican Party Executive

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: danecounty; election; electors; lawfare; wisconsin
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1 posted on 08/13/2023 6:56:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

weaponization of the court system which has been filled up with obama judges and fake republican neoCON deep state scum judges.


2 posted on 08/13/2023 6:58:27 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Dane County Circuit Judge stooge Frank Remington weighs in with the latest DNC lawfare...
3 posted on 08/13/2023 7:02:00 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: imabadboy99

Dane County is the Berkeley of the Midwest.


4 posted on 08/13/2023 7:02:25 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Electoral College is a representative body.

There were two slates of “representatives” up for election in November of 2020.

One was “chosen” and allowed to vote for President.

The other wasn’t. They are not “fake” or “alternate” electors.

They are the other slate.

Just as in ANY election, there is ANOTHER candidate, not a “fake” or “alternate” candidate.


5 posted on 08/13/2023 7:07:04 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

The Pubbies had better start playing smashmouth over this kind of thing, or they’re done as a national party.


6 posted on 08/13/2023 7:08:22 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is like the mob—they are not happy just rigging the poker game—they want to break a few legs afterwards if anyone dares complain about it.


7 posted on 08/13/2023 7:09:00 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington is little more than a divorce court judge. How a hack gets a case like this is mystifying, unless you know that the Democrats never enter a courtroom without judge shopping.


8 posted on 08/13/2023 7:09:10 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Alternate electors are a fully legal construct. They aren’t to be used until called.

This is crazy, and should be thrown out.


9 posted on 08/13/2023 7:12:40 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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I still do not understand who the “alternate electors” are.

Are they the individuals appointed by the GOP who WOULD HAVE cast ballots on December 14 IF Trump had been declared the winner by the various State authorities?

Or are they randos who go around announcing that THEY are the actual Electors appointed by Wisconsin, etc?


10 posted on 08/13/2023 7:15:17 AM PDT by Jim Noble (He who saves the nation breaks no law)
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When 19 states petition SCOTUS about the illegal changes of election laws in several battleground states in 2020, their motion is thrown out because of "lack of standing."

And yet when a group of Dems nebulously allege election wrongdoing on the part of Trump, the courts allow them to go forward.
11 posted on 08/13/2023 7:17:14 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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fake republican neoCON deep state

What makes these Republicans "fake"?

As far as I can tell, they are a perfect representation of what the GOP really is.

12 posted on 08/13/2023 7:17:30 AM PDT by Jim Noble (He who saves the nation breaks no law)
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To: Dan in Wichita

You are starting to “get it” now. A guy named George wrote a book about “it” a while ago.


13 posted on 08/13/2023 7:29:07 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is no reason to put quotes around alternate.


14 posted on 08/13/2023 7:30:41 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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Again, as with Michigan, they weren't allowed to sign the original certification, and they weren't allowed to present their alternate certification.

There's no crime.

15 posted on 08/13/2023 7:30:52 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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No republican has standing to challenge a stolen election, but every democrats has standing to challenge the challenge???

We are living in an occupied territory.


16 posted on 08/13/2023 7:41:40 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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We are living in an occupied territory.


But we are still fighting, aren’t we? Or do we submit?


17 posted on 08/13/2023 7:46:09 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Are you an American?


18 posted on 08/13/2023 7:51:15 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: CodeToad

Are you an American?


Yes I am, why do you ask?

Do my questions bother you?


19 posted on 08/13/2023 7:56:29 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The entire issue of Democrat Lawfare should have and could have been put to rest if the RNC had fought back when the Dems unleashed their lawfare operation against Palin in 2008-12 when they besieged her with scores of frivolous lawsuits that drove her to the point of bankruptcy which lead her to resign as governor. When she pleaded for help from the RNC they turned their back on her. At that point the Media-Dem Party could smell blood in the water and that the RNC would NEVER lift a finger against their relentless lawfare operation. The RNC never took any action against the media for their sidekick role in the operation either, they just continued to try and suck up to them.


20 posted on 08/13/2023 7:59:26 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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