Summary
Elon Musk handed $1 million checks to two Wisconsin voters at a Sunday rally supporting conservative court candidate Brad Schimel ahead of the state’s pivotal Supreme Court election.
But the state Supreme Court, which is currently controlled 4-3 by liberal justices, declined to take the case as an original action and gave no rationale for its decision.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul argued the payments violated election law.
Musk’s groups have spent over $20 million in the race, which has drawn more than $81 million in total spending.
Why does the SC have to take anything for charges to be brought?
It was a civil suit, not criminal charges. And the suit has been brought and argued, and appealed once, this was another appeal that was declined.
Edit: actually it wasn’t. The article says they “declined to take the case as an original action”, probably because it belonged in the lower courts first, then appealed to the higher court.
That’s sorta my point. Fine that they wanted to block the payment from ever occurring. It still seems like a valid criminal case.
They can’t do anything until it affects the outcome of the election so once the nazi judge is on the bench they will take the case and find him not in violation of the constitution because the people decided
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