An unanimous Visconsin Supreme Court on Sunday refused to listen to a final -minute attempt by the state’s Democratic Attorney General to prevent billionaire Elon Musk. $ 1 million check to two votersA ruling that came a few minutes before the rally started.
There were two lower courts Already rejected the legal challenge Democrats by Josh Kaul, who argues that Musk’s offering violates a state law. “Visconsin law offers anything value to motivate anyone to vote,” Kaul argued in his filing. “Nevertheless, Elon Musk did this.”
But the state Supreme Court, currently controlled by Liberal Justice, refused to take the case as original action. The court did not make any argument for its decision.
Taking a platform wearing a yellow foam cheese hat in Green Bay, Musk on Sunday gave two Visconsin voters an $ 1 million check, which announced him a spokesman for his political group.
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Kasturi portrayed the judicial race, which he has pumped over $ 20 million as a judge for the country.
Given the possibility that the High Court of the state carried forward the redistribution, which could give Democrats a chance to win two additional American house seats, “Musk said,” The house majority is now the razor thin. “
“If (Visconsin)) is capable of re -preparing the districts (Visconsin), they will take the district in the district and deprive Visconsin from two seats from the Republican,” Musk said. “Then they will try to stop all the government reforms that we are doing, American people for you.”
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Visconsin’s tightly Supreme Court election, where the court’s ideological control is at stake, is on Tuesday. Race with the help of Musk Most expensive judicial election In American history, more than $ 81 million in expenditure.
Liberals currently have 4-3 majority. But five of the seven Justices of the court have supported a candidate in the race, increasing the possible struggle for him to hear Kasturi’s trial.
Liberal Justice of the court has supported the Demo County Judge Susan Crowford, Democratic -backed candidate. One of the orthodox justies of the court has supported Wukesh County Judge Brad Shimel, who also has the support of President Trump and Musk. Promoting on Sunday, Shimel wore “Make America Great Again Hat”.
“This is what I have committed to anyone, whether it is President Trump, Elon Musk or Wisconsin to any donor and donor or supporters or voters or voters. It’s my commitment,” Shimel “told” Fox News Sandy “.
It is not clear whether Shimel attended the rally or not.
Crawford’s campaign refused to comment on Kaul’s legal filing, and Kaul did not immediately comment on the court’s order.
“Visconsin law offers anything value to motivate anyone to vote,” Kaul argued in his filing. “Nevertheless, Elon Musk did this.”
Musk’s political action committee used almost the same strategy before the presidential election last year, offered to pay $ 1 million per day to voters in Wisconsin and six other battground states signed a petition to support the first and second amendment. A judge in Pennsylvania said that the prosecutor failed to show the effort and an illegal lottery and Allowed to continue on election day,
Musk said in a post on his social media platform, X on Friday that they planned to hand over a pair of voters to “individually $ 2 million”, who had already cast their ballots in the race.
Musk later posted an explanation, stating that the money would go to those who would be “spokespersons” for an online petition against the “activist” judges. For the first time, after saying that the incident would be open only to those who voted in the Supreme Court race, they said that the attendance would be limited to those who have signed the petition.
In addition, on Friday, Musk’s political action committee identified the recipient of its first $ 1 million cheap – a green bay person who donated to the Visconsin GOP and the conservative candidate in the court race, and who has history of posting support for Trump and his agenda.
The judicial election comes when the Supreme Court of Wisconsin is expected to rule the rights of abortion, the Congress’s redistribution, the power of the Sangh and the polling rules that can affect the mid -term of 2026 and the 2028 presidential election in the state.
There will also be Congress elections held on Tuesday in Florida which have attracted big money raising. The 6th district of Florida was vacated when National Security Advisor Mike Waltz joined the cabinet of Sri Trump, and 1 district was organized by former rape Matt Gatez, who resigned to join the Trump administration as Attorney General. He eventually withdrew his name from the idea, but he had already vacated his seat. Both districts voted for Mr. Trump for 30 points or more, but Democrats dominated the money.
