Chuck Darwin

2025-03-13 22:26:48

One of the few nationally significant elections on the calendar in 2025 is for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

That court has become Musk’s next takeover target.

In recent years, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has played an outsized role in deciding major legal issues relating to elections.

When Trump took his efforts to overturn the 2020 election to Wisconsin
—where Joe Biden had eked out a victory by less than 1%
—the state supreme court rejected Trump’s attempt to throw out 200,000 votes and affirmed the lawfulness of the election.

Similarly, the court in 2024 struck down one of the most aggressive, anti-voter gerrymanders in the nation.

Before the court acted, Wisconsin voters had spent more than a decade with large Republican majorities in the state legislature,
even though Wisconsin is the epitome of a 50/50 “purple” state.

The court’s ruling struck down the gerrymander and required state legislators to run in fair districts,
returning control of the state government to the people of Wisconsin.

In these and other major decisions, the seven-member court has frequently divided 4-3.

Four progressive-leaning justices currently form the majority;
one of those majority seats
—and therefore the political balance on the court
—is up for election in 2025.

contrarian.substack.com/p/elon…

Elon Musk Turns His Eye—and His Wallet—Towards Wisconsin

For a kleptocrat with endless ambition, the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is a bargain buy

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