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AN 6 26
Three alleged planners of Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme pleaded not guilty Tuesday to eleven forgery-related criminal charges in a Wisconsin’s County court — but they might be walking into a toothy maw of legal pain.
The Milwaukee Journal Constitution reports “Jim Troupis, a former Wisconsin campaign attorney for President Donald Trump, Michael Roman, a former Trump aide, and Kenneth Chesebro, a Wisconsin-born former Trump attorney, appeared in Dane County Circuit Court for arraignment on 11 counts of felony charges related to the so-called fake elector scheme.”
Most federal criminal cases against Trump henchmen for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election have collapsed or been dismissed after voters returned Trump to the White House in 2024. Votebeat Wisconsin reports Georgia’s election interference case got dismissed just as the prosecution nabbed guilty pleas from Trump’s allies. Michigan’s false elector case also got dismissed, and Arizona’s own investigation is stalling after a major setback for the prosecution. Nevada prosecutors resumed their own investigation after the state Supreme Court revived charges that a lower court threw out, reports Votebeat.
But the Wisconsin case is laced with pratfalls for Trump’s people. Firstly, 10 false electors from 2020 settled a civil lawsuit in Wisconsin by acknowledging that Biden won the 2020 election. But Chesebro and Troupis not only reached a settlement in that case but also turned over a trove of damning documents outlining their role in trying to overturn a legitimate U.S. election.
The office of Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul claims Troupis, Chesebro and Roman “lied to the Wisconsin Republicans who signed paperwork falsely claiming to be electors for Trump in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 election for Biden,” the Sentinel reports.
“The 10 Republicans who signed paperwork claiming to be electors have not been charged criminally related to the fake documents,” reports the Sentinel, but other state Republicans, like former Republican Party of Wisconsin chairman Andrew Hitt, who was one of the 10 Republicans who participated in Wisconsin, said in 2024 he felt "tricked" by the Trump campaign to sign the paperwork.
And while other state prosecutions have been sidelines by Trump’s return to the White House or Republican judges and legislatures, the state of Wisconsin has a court system which has been streaking toward the left since Trump’s election, with the GOP not even bothering to run candidates in some court races.
Additionally, public opinion polls in this state that supported Trump’s reelection have collapsed as voters turn on Trump and his beholden Republican Party.
Worse for Trump’s henchmen, however, is the fact that if a state jury does find the three guilty, Trump will be unable to rescue them with a pardon because the charges are coming down in state, rather than federal courts. In fact, Trump already pardoned Troupis on the federal level last November, not that it helped.
The Sentinel reports Dane County Circuit Court Judge Mario White is overseeing the case.
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AN 6 26
As three alleged planners of Wisconsin’s fake elector scheme prepare to be arraigned this week in Dane County court, the criminal charges against them are moving forward in a national legal and political landscape that looks dramatically different from the one in which they were filed.
*This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.
When Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed the charges in June 2024, Joe Biden was president, Donald Trump was battling a criminal case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and state prosecutors in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada were bringing criminal cases tied to the fake elector scheme.
That scheme arose in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump allies tried to keep him in power despite his loss. Those allies, who became known as fake or false electors, attempted to cast electoral votes for Trump in multiple states he lost and submit those certificates to Congress.
Now, as the three defendants in the Wisconsin case await arraignment on 11 felony forgery charges on June 16, Trump has regained the presidency, and he and his allies are undertaking extensive efforts to rewrite what happened in the 2020 election.
Since returning to office, Trump has issued a federal pardon to those involved in the 2020 scheme, and his administration has sent the FBI to investigate the 2020 election in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
The federal criminal case against Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election has been dismissed. And, until recently, his administration had plans to allocate $1.8 billion to compensate people it claimed had been unfairly prosecuted by the federal government, raising questions about whether participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and those involved in the fake elector schemes could receive taxpayer funds.
Other state cases have also faltered. Georgia’s election interference case has been dismissed, though not before the prosecution secured some guilty pleas from Trump’s allies. Michigan’s false elector case has also been dismissed. Arizona’s remains unresolved after a major setback for the prosecution, and Nevada’s just resumed after its Supreme Court revived charges that a lower court had thrown out.
Kaul faced criticism for filing his charges so late — it was the last criminal case to be filed regarding the fake electors. But two years later, that timing has left Wisconsin’s as one of the last cases standing in the broader, mostly failed effort to prosecute Trump and his allies for their attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
“The direction of activity has completely flipped, from prosecuting the people who were disrupting the election or inhibiting the normal flow of events to now going after Trump’s adversaries,” said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor who founded the Elections Research Center.
The Trump administration’s new investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin and elsewhere, Burden said, “seems to be a targeted effort at people who were mostly upholding the law and trying to administer an election in a very difficult environment.”
Amid the federal government’s current activity, and nearly six years removed from the 2020 election, Burden said any guilty finding in the Wisconsin fake elector case would likely have a muted effect.
“If we wanted the public to believe that there were ramifications for that kind of unlawful behavior, it would have to happen quickly and publicly, and feel like it was an immediate response to what people had done after the 2020 election,” he said. “But that’s not where we are six years later.”
‘Shocking’ if there are no ramifications in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin criminal case is still in its preliminary stages. Although it was filed two years ago, a number of motions and an appeal have set the case back significantly.
The defendants — former Dane County Judge Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s Wisconsin campaign attorney in 2020; attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who advised Trump on legal matters; and former Trump aide Mike Roman — are scheduled to be arraigned on June 16.
Each faces 11 felony charges for his part in allegedly guiding Wisconsin’s 10 fake electors to send documents to the U.S. Capitol falsely stating that Trump had won Wisconsin in the 2020 election.
The 10 false electors from 2020 aren’t defendants in the current case, but they separately settled a civil lawsuit in Wisconsin by acknowledging that Biden won the 2020 election and pledging not to violate election laws in the future.
Chesebro and Troupis separately reached a settlement in that case, turning over a trove of documents outlining their role in 2020 and agreeing not to participate in similar schemes in future elections.
Text messages and emails show that Chesebro was a primary architect behind the 2020 plan to have Wisconsin’s GOP electors attest that Trump won the state while Trump’s court challenges seeking to overturn the election were still ongoing. Troupis discussed that plan with the Trump campaign, and Roman helped craft the language of the documents Republicans planned to send to the Capitol from states that Biden won.
Troupis has since asked the federal government to reimburse him $3.2 million from the proposed $1.8 billion fund, saying his life has been a “nightmare” since he stepped up to represent Trump.
“My experience is a poster-child for what weaponization can do,” he wrote in a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, adding that “the entire legal system is at risk if compensation is not paid.”
Attorneys for Chesebro and Roman didn’t respond to requests for comment, and Troupis’ attorney declined to comment.
Burden said it is striking that the case is still ongoing nearly six years after the election, but he said the conduct at issue remains extraordinary.
“These were among the most serious challenges to elections we’ve seen in modern times,” Burden said.
“To think that there might be no ramifications of that really would be shocking,” he said, “and, I think, at odds with how the American criminal justice system has typically operated.”
*Alexander Shur is a reporter for Votebeat based in Wisconsin. Contact Alexander atashur@votebeat.org.
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AN 12 25
When Donald Trump won the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, he was facing four criminal indictments — two of them pertaining to his efforts to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election. One was a federal case prosecuted by then-special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); the other was a Georgia case prosecuted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
After Trump won the 2024 election, Smith cited DOJ's policy against prosecuting a sitting president. And in late November, Fulton Superior Judge Scott McAfee ruled that the Georgia case was officially "dismissed in its entirety."
But that doesn't necessarily mean that allies of Trump cannot face election interference-related charges.
In a decision on Monday, December 15, Dane County, Wisconsin Circuit Judge John Hyland ruled that there was probable cause to move forward with 11 felony charges against two Trump allies in that state: Jim Troupis (Trump's 2020 campaign attorney for Wisconsin) and Mike Roman (director of Trump's 2020 Election Day operations). Troupis and Roman are facing charges for their role in the fake elector scheme of 2020.
According to Associated Press reporter Scott Bauer, "The charges relate to attempts by the former aides to present a slate of Republican electors to Congress falsely claiming that Trump had won Wisconsin that year even though he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. The Wisconsin case is moving forward even as others in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia have faltered. A special prosecutor last year dropped a federal case claiming Trump conspired to overturn the 2020 election. Another case in Nevada is still alive."
Hyland, Bauer notes, "said communication from the defendants showed their intent to present as legitimate a certificate awarding Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes to Trump, not a document to be accepted only if a court ruled that Trump won the state."
"The preliminary hearing of a third person charged, former Trump attorney Ken Chesebro, was postponed amid questions about what statements the man made to prosecutors that could be admitted in court," Bauer reports. "The judge said he wanted to hold a separate hearing on whether comments Chesebro made in an agreement with Wisconsin investigators were allowed to be admitted at trial."
*Read the full Associated Press article at this link.
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Trump Grants Sweeping Pardons to Dozens Targeted After 2020 Election [WATCH]
By LifeZette News Staff
November 10, 2025
President Donald Trump has issued a broad pardon proclamation extending clemency to dozens of allies who faced prosecution over efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The order, signed and released by the White House, declares the pardons part of an effort to correct what the president called a “grave national injustice” and move toward “national reconciliation.”
“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 presidential election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” the document reads.
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The proclamation grants “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any state or state official in connection with the 2020 presidential election, as well as for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 presidential election.”
Among those named are several high-profile figures who became central to post-election investigations, including Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s former personal attorney and former mayor of New York; John Eastman, one of Trump’s lawyers involved in election-related legal strategies; and Tyler Bowyer, a senior member of Turning Point USA.
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In total, the list includes more than 70 individuals. The names listed in the document include Mark Amick, Kathy Berden, Christina Bobb, Joseph Brannan, Carol Brunner, Mary Buestrin, Darryl Carlson, James “Ken” Carroll, Brad Carver, Robert Cheeley, Kenneth Chesebro, Hank Choate, Jeffrey Clark, Vikki Consiglio, Nancy Cottle, James DeGraffenreid, John Downey, Jenna Ellis, Boris Epshteyn, Amy Facchinello, Bill Feehan, Carolyn Fisher, Harrison Floyd, Clifford Frost, Kay Godwin, Edward Scott Grabins, Stanley Grot, John Haggard, Scott Hall, Misty Hampton, David G. Hanna, Mark Hennessy, Mari-Ann Henry, Durward James Hindle III, Andrew Hitt, Jake Hoffman, Burt Jones, Anthony T. Kern, Kathy Kiernen, Timothy King, Trevian Kutti, James Lamon, Cathleen Latham, Jesse Law, Stephen Lee, Michele Lundgren, Meshawn Maddock, Michael McDonald, Mark Meadows, Shawn Meehan, Robert Montgomery, Daryl Moody, Samuel I. Moorhead, Loraine Pellegrino, Sidney Powell, James Renner, Eileen Rice, Mayra Rodriguez, Mike Roman, Rose Rook, Kelly Ruh, Greg Safsten, David Shafer, Marian Sheridan, Ray Stallings Smith III, Robert F. Spindell Jr., Shawn Still, Ken Thompson, Pam Travis, James Troupis, Kent Vanderwood, Kelli Ward, Michael Ward, and C.B. Yadav.
The proclamation notes that the pardon applies only to those whose conduct was directly related to post-election challenges or alternate elector efforts, as well as activities tied to investigating or exposing alleged voting irregularities.
In a statement posted to X, Bowyer expressed gratitude toward President Trump and others who supported those charged in connection with the post-election cases.
“I am very grateful for the support of the President and his pardon attorney Ed Martin, and the many who have looked out for us since this expensive injustice has taken place in the swing states,” he wrote.
“We were targeted to sideline many of us politically. It has nearly bankrupted and caused severe trauma to many good people on this list—this is why it is important to get to the bottom of what was carried out against good faith and active citizens who took to the courts to ask questions about the 2020 election.”
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While the proclamation offers comprehensive relief for those prosecuted or investigated, it explicitly excludes President Trump himself.
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“This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” the document states.
That clarification ensures that any ongoing or future legal proceedings involving the president personally are not affected by the order.
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The move, however, effectively brings to a close years of prosecutions, investigations, and civil actions targeting individuals tied to Trump’s post-election legal and political efforts.
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an 12 24
Two former attorneys and a campaign staff member for President-elect Donald Trump made their initial appearance in Dane County Circuit Court Thursday in the felony cases against them for their roles in hatching the scheme to cast false Electoral College votes for Trump following the 2020 election.
Of the three men charged, Michael Roman, James Troupis and Kenneth Chesebro, only Troupis appeared in court in person. The other two appeared over the phone. All three were granted signature bonds with the condition that they not have any contact with the ten Wisconsin Republicans who cast Electoral College votes for Trump in 2020.
All three men face 11 counts of felony forgery.
Multiple recounts, lawsuits and investigations have found that Trump lost the 2020 election in Wisconsin. Still, after that election, the three men worked to develop the plan that involved false slates of electors casting votes for Trump in Wisconsin and other states. The false slates of electors provided a pretext for the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
After the hearing, Troupis called the charges “lawfare in all its despicable forms,” saying Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has “doubled down on a vicious strategy to destroy our very faith in the system of justice by using the courts for his own personal political game.”
On Wednesday, the voting rights focused firm Law Forward filed an ethics complaint against Troupis, a former Dane County Circuit Court judge, with the state Office of Lawyer Regulation. The grievance alleges that Troupis’ role in developing the fake elector scheme subverted the will of the people and violated state rules for attorney conduct.
“Our democracy depends on attorneys adhering to their ethical obligations,” Jeff Mandell, President and General Counsel of Law Forward, said in a statement. “Troupis violated those obligations by advancing falsehoods, enabling fraud, and undermining the rule of law. This grievance seeks to hold him accountable and ensure that such abuses of the legal profession are never repeated.”
The three men are next scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 28.
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AN 12 24
Two of President-elect Donald Trump's former attorneys and one of his former aides have been criminally charged in Wisconsin as part of the "fake electors" plot from 2020.
According to the Guardian, attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and James Troupis, along with Republican operative Michael Roman, have all been charged by Wisconsin's Justice Department with conspiracy to commit a crime and several additional counts of fraud. While Wisconsin has previously pursued civil action as part of the fake electors scheme, this marks the first time the Badger State has filed criminal charges in response to the plot to overturn the 2020 election in the critical battleground state.
The criminal complaint mentioned Chesebro as the brains of the operation, having authored a memo entitled: "The Real Deadline for Settling a State’s Electoral Votes." That memo laid out the plan for Republicans to falsely submit their names to seven different swing states as the duly appointed presidential electors, even though President Joe Biden actually won the election in those states.
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Chesebro's new charges are particularly noteworthy, as CNN reported in 2023 that Chesebro was cooperating with the fake elector investigations in both Michigan and Wisconsin. He also cooperated with law enforcement in both Arizona and Nevada, and pleaded guilty after Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis indicted him and more than a dozen others in her RICO case. His plea of conspiracy to commit to filing false documents guaranteed no prison time provided he cooperated with Willis' office and testified against his co-defendants.
Andrew Hitt, who was the chair of the Wisconsin Republican Party in 2020, told 60 Minutes earlier this year that he felt pressured to go along with the fake elector plot out of fear of Trump's supporters. And in a 2022 deposition, Hitt said he regularly got threatening calls and emails from both sides of the political aisle, with some demanding to know his exact location.
"If my lawyer is right, and the whole reason Trump loses Wisconsin is because of me, I would be scared to death," Hitt told journalist Anderson Cooper. "It was not a safe time."
Attorney Scott Grubmann, who represents Chesebro, insistes that his client "never believed" that Trump won the 2020 election despite his role in hatching the fake elector plot.
READ MORE:[Former Trump lawyer and Ga co-defendant now cooperating in 2 new 'fake elector' investigations
Click here to read the Guardian's report in fulL.
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an 6 24
on Wednesday, June 4, the news broke that Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul had filed criminal charges against three allies of former President Donald Trump in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in their state: James Troupis, Michael Roman and Kenneth Chesebro.
Trump himself, however, has not been indicted in Kaul's case, which follows criminal indictments of Trump allies in separate election interference cases being prosecuted by Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.
On X, formerly Twitter, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) — a far-right Trump loyalist — was quick to attack Kaul's indictment, posting, "This is outrageous. Now Democrats are weaponizing Wisconsin's judiciary. Apparently conservative lawyers advising clients is illegal under Democrat tyranny. Democrats are turning America into a banana republic."
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In an op-ed published by MSNBC's website on June 7, Never Trump conservative Charlie Sykes lays out some reasons why Kaul's case presents an "awkward situation for Wisconsin's senior senator." And they involve the fake electors scheme in Wisconsin.
"According to this week's indictment, after a meeting at the Wisconsin Capitol on December 14, 2020, where Trump electors signed the fake certificates, Chesebro and Troupis arranged for the documents to be flown to Washington by a young GOP volunteer," the Wisconsin-based Sykes explains. "According to the charging document, the young aide sent a January 5 text message saying, '5 mins until I make the drop' and added, 'I feel like a drug dealer.' She later told '60 Minutes' that when she handed the certificates to Chesebro, the attorney took 'a dramatic step back and looked at me and said: You might have just made history.'"
Sykes continues, "This is where Johnson comes in. According to the House January 6 Committee, Johnson connected Troupis with his chief of staff, Sean Riley, who texted (Mike) Pence staff member Chris Hodgson at 12:37 p.m. on January 6, (2021) saying, 'Johnson needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise'…. Riley told Hodgson that they hoped to deliver an 'alternate slate of electors for MI and WI because archivist didn't receive them.'"
But an aide for then-Vice President Pence, Sykes notes, told Riley, "Do not give them to him."
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In a text sent to Johnson on January 6, 2021, Troupis said, "We need to get a document on the Wisconsin electors to you for the VP immediately."
Sykes argues, "The new documents shred his tortured explanations, and the new criminal charges guarantee that he will face more questions — a lot more questions — about what he knew and when he knew it."
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*Charlie Sykes' full column for MSNBC is available at this link.
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in leaked recordings from conversations with prosecutors in Michigan, former Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro explained how he sold former President Donald Trump false hope about overturning the 2020 presidential election.
CNN published the audio on Wednesday. Chesebro can be heard talking about an Oval Office photo op with then-lame duck President Trump. During his interactions with Trump, Chesebro apparently defied instructions from fellow attorney Jim Troupis — who tried and failed to challenge election results in the battleground state of Wisconsin — to not say anything to the outgoing president to get his hopes up about overturning the election.
"I ended up explaining that Arizona was still hypothetically possible — because the alternate electors had voted," Chesebro said in one of the recordings. "Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg and [Harvard law professor emeritus] Laurence Tribe had both written that January 6 was the real deadline."
"So it was, I think clear in a way that maybe it hadn't been before that we had until January 6 to win," Chesebro said, while clarifying his comments emphasizing the importance of the January 6 deadline.
According to CNN, Chesebro was chastised after his interaction with Trump by former White House Chief of Staff (and former Republican National Committee chairman) Reince Priebus, who was reportedly "visibly angry" following Chesebro's conversation.
READ MORE:Former Trump lawyer and GA co-defendant now cooperating in 2 new 'fake elector' investigations
"Right after that meeting, Troupis said Reince Priebus was extremely concerned with what I told the president about Arizona and about the real deadline being January 6, and that he was going to do damage control," Chesebro is heard saying. "Reince was going to follow up and was going to try to mitigate whatever optimism I had created."
Chesebro, along with other Trump attorneys like John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark, was a primary architect of the so-called "fake electors" plot. That plot involved GOP activists from swing states Joe Biden narrowly won presenting themselves as members of that state's electoral college, whereupon they would cast their electoral votes for Donald Trump in defiance of their state's voters.
After entering his guilty plea in Fulton County District Court in Georgia in late October, Chesebro has since cooperated with investigators in four other states: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin. While cooperation won't guarantee that Chesebro avoids jail time altogether, it could result in lesser sentences.
READ MORE:Watch: Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro strikes last-minute plea deal with Georgia prosecutors
To listen to the recordings, scroll up or click this link.
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https://theintercept.com/2022/08/23/ron-johnson-january-6-fake-electors/
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Playing Dumb: Sen. Ron Johnson’s Role in Jan. 6 Plot Is Hiding in Plain Sight
The Republican senator from Wisconsin won’t say why he agreed to hand fake slates of electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021.
Robert Mackey
August 23 2022,ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL in Wisconsin last week, Sen. Ron Johnson, the Republican incumbent, acknowledged but attempted to downplay his role in a plot to overthrow American democracy on January 6, 2021.
Asked by Matt Smith of WISN-TV Milwaukee if he would be willing to testify to the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, Johnson argued that he had spent only “a couple seconds” that day furthering a scheme to keep the defeated president, Donald Trump, in office by falsifying Electoral College results.
As he struggled to minimize his role in the plot by Republican operatives in Wisconsin to submit a slate of electors who would ignore Trump’s defeat at the ballot box, Johnson appeared to contradict himself multiple times in the interview. Moments after telling Smith that he “had nothing to do with the alternate slate,” the senator admitted that he had, in fact, sent text messages on January 6 to connect his chief of staff with a lawyer for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin who wanted Johnson to hand-deliver fabricated electoral votes for Trump to then-Vice President Mike Pence.
As text messages released by the January 6 committee in June showed, the scheme quickly fizzled because an aide to Pence told Johnson’s chief of staff that the vice president would not accept the fake electoral votes from the senator. Since then, whenever he has been asked why he agreed to facilitate the plot, Johnson has drawn attention to how quickly it failed, as if that somehow exonerated him.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: A text exchange between a staffer for Sen. Ron Johnson and an aide to former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence appears on a video screen during the fourth hearing on the January 6th investigation in the Cannon House Office Building on June 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)A Jan. 6, 2021, text exchange between Sen. Ron Johnson’s chief of staff and an aide to then-Vice President Mike Pence is revealed by the House January 6 committee at a hearing in June. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images]
“My involvement in that attempt to deliver spanned the course of a couple seconds. I got — I think I fielded three texts and sent two,” Johnson told Smith. “I had virtually no involvement. Literally, my involvement lasted seconds.”
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Johnson refused to explain why he had agreed to act as a go-between with Pence for Jim Troupis, the Trump campaign lawyer in Wisconsin who wanted the fake electors for Trump from Wisconsin and Michigan to be counted instead of those for Biden, who had been elected by the popular vote in those two states.
Johnson’s frequently hapless efforts to evade direct questions about his role in the plot began with outright falsehoods in June, when the text exchange between his chief of staff and the Pence aide on January 6 was projected on a big screen during a hearing of the House select committee.
Pressed by reporters that day to explain what his role had been, Johnson tried to dodge questions by pretending to be on the phone and then falsely said that he had no idea who had passed the fake slates of electors on to his office.
Later the same day, the senator again lied to reporters by saying that “interns” were to blame for accepting the slates of fabricated electors and that he “had no idea” who had delivered them to his aides.
Two days later, Johnson himself revealed that he knew all along that Troupis was the source of the fabricated electoral votes by providing more text messages to the conservative activist and columnist John Solomon. The texts published by Solomon, embedded in a column that accused the January 6 committee of making too much of the senator’s role in the plot, also showed that the senator had put Trump’s lawyer in touch with his chief of staff, Sean Riley, just six minutes after being asked to pass on the fake electoral votes.
A screenshot of a Jan. 6, 2021, text message to Sen. Ron Johnson from Jim Troupis, a lawyer for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin. The text was obtained by John Solomon, a conservative activist and columnist.]
A screenshot of Jan. 6, 2021, text messages sent by Sen. Ron Johnson to Jim Troupis and Johnson’s chief of staff, Sean Riley. The texts were obtained by John Solomon.
Solomon also obtained and published a longer version of the text exchange between Riley and the Pence aide, Chris Hodgson — which was apparently copied from Riley’s phone.
A screenshot of a Jan. 6, 2021, text exchange between Sean Riley and Chris Hodgson, an aide to then-Vice President Mike Pence. The texts were obtained by John Solomon.]
The longer version of the exchange shows that Pence’s aide explained that the fake Electoral College votes “were supposed to come in through the mail.” That text suggests that the vice president’s office was not taken by surprise by the effort to submit false electoral votes and was perhaps just sticking more rigorously to the letter of the law governing presidential elections, which states that the results of the Electoral College votes in each state are supposed to be sent to the vice president by registered mail, not hand-delivered.
In an interview with a sympathetic right-wing radio host in Wisconsin two days after the committee pointed to his role, Johnson stressed that the text messages showed that his documented role in the plot lasted just over an hour. “My office’s entire involvement in this thing lasted 70 minutes,” Johnson told radio host Vicki McKenna. “My involvement was probably seconds, maybe a minute or two,” he said.
By focusing so intently, in interview after interview, on the time stamps of the text messages about the fake electors plot he sent and received on January 6, Johnson seems to be drawing attention away from the question of why he instantly agreed to help Trump’s lawyer, Troupis, push the plot forward.
And when Johnson claims, as he did to the right-wing Wisconsin radio host, that he barely knew Troupis at the time, he is banking on listeners in McKenna’s ultraconservative audience not knowing that Troupis was a central figure in the effort to undermine the certification of the electoral vote and that Johnson had given Troupis a public platform to push his lies about election fraud just three weeks before January 6.
On December 16, 2020, Johnson chaired a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee dedicated to “Examining Irregularities in the 2020 Election,” which featured testimony from Troupis and Jesse Binnall, another Trump lawyer who had unsuccessfully filed suit to overturn the results of the presidential election in Nevada.
A week later, Johnson used his official Twitter feed to share false claims of electoral fraud in Wisconsin that Troupis had made at the hearing.
Just one week before that hearing, on December 9, 2020, Troupis had received detailed written instructions about how to create a fake slate of electors for Trump from anotherlawyer working with the Trump campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, an ally of John Eastman,whose plan for halting congressional certification of the Electoral College results on January 6, 2021, had been embraced by Trump. As the New York Times reported last month, Troupis also wrote to a Trump adviser on December 7, 2020, that submitting alternate slates of electors in swing states was part of a plot to give Pence a reason to delay congressional certification of the Electoral College results on January 6.
some lnx solomon: https://justthenews.com/government/jan-6-panels-ron-johnson-narrative-exposes-ills-one-sided-hearing
...just one week before that hearing, on December 9, 2020, Troupis had received detailed written instructions about how to create a fake slate of electors for Trump from another lawyer working with the Trump campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, an ally of John Eastman, whose plan for halting congressional certification of the Electoral College results on January 6, 2021, had been embraced by Trump. As the New York Times reported last month,Troupis also wrote to a Trump adviser on December 7, 2020, that submitting alternate slates of electors in swing states was part of a plot to give Pence a reason to delay congressional certification of the Electoral College results on January 6.
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NOT SO FAST — Rep. RODNEY DAVIS (R-Ill.) wants to lead a probe into the Jan. 6 committee if, as expected, Republicans win control of the House. There’s just one problem: Trump wants him gone. “Before he can grab the ‘investigate the investigators’ baton, he has to beat a Trump-backed primary opponent as he runs in a district significantly more conservative than his current one, an intraparty race already flooded with nearly $11.5 million in outside spending,” Jordain Carney reports this morning.
RON JOHN TWEAKS HIS TUNE — “After initially claiming to be ‘basically unaware’ of an effort by his staff to get fake presidential elector documents to Vice President MIKE PENCE, U.S. Sen. RON JOHNSON said Thursday he coordinated with a Wisconsin attorney [JIM TROUPIS] to pass along such information, and alleged a Pennsylvania congressman [Rep. MIKE KELLY] brought slates of fake electors to his office — a claim that was immediately disputed,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Molly Beck and Lawrence Andrea report.
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/02/02/trump-campaigns-wisconsin-attorney-got-memo-fake-elector-strategy/6642643001/
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Wisconsin attorney for Trump campaign one of first known to learn of fake elector strategy, memo shows
Molly Beck
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Trump campaign attorney James Troupis speaks during a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
MADISON – A Wisconsin attorney hired to litigate former President Donald Trump's 2020 loss in the state was one of the first to learn of a scheme to put in place Republican electors in states Trump was trying to overturn election results.
Jim Troupis, a former Dane County Circuit Court judge hired by Trump's campaign to oversee recounts, received a memo on Nov. 18, 2020, outlining the strategy, according to the New York Times. The memo arrived the same day Troupis filed paperwork on behalf of the Trump campaign to begin ballot recounts in the liberal-leaning and populous Dane and Milwaukee counties.
The memo underscores the significance of Jan. 6, 2021, to the Trump campaign's efforts to overturn a loss confirmed by courts and recounts — a date thousands converged on the U.S. Capitol to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's victory, resulting in violence and death.
The memo to Troupis came from Boston-area attorney Kenneth Chesebro with the subject line "The Real Deadline for Settling a State’s Electoral Vote."
It outlined Chesebro's legal analysis backing up his suggestion during a conference call with Troupis that "in any judicial review of the canvassing/recounting in Wisconsin, we should emphasize that the presidential election timetable affords ample time for judicial proceedings, even if initial errors in the recount require a remand for further recounting."
Chesebro told Troupis that Jan. 6, 2021, should be considered the real deadline to resolve Wisconsin's presidential contest — not Dec. 8, 2020, a so-called "safe harbor" deadline under the Electoral Count Act that Wisconsin missed, or Dec. 14, 2020, when electors met in the Wisconsin State Capitol to confirm President Joe Biden's victory.
"Assuming the electors pledged to Trump and Pence end up meeting at the Wisconsin Capitol on December 14 to cast their votes, and then send their votes to the President of the Senate in time to be opened on January 6, a court decision (or, perhaps, a state legislative determination) rendered after December 14 in favor of the Trump-Pence slate of electors should be considered timely," Chesebro wrote to Troupis.
"On this view, the only real deadline during the next month is the December 14 deadline to cast electoral votes — so that any state judicial proceedings which extend past that date, working toward resolution of who has won Wisconsin’s electoral votes, are entirely compatible with federal law provided that they are completed by January 6."
On Dec. 14, 2020, Wisconsin's members of the Electoral College gathered in the state Capitol to deliver the state's 10 electoral votes to Biden. At the same time, in another part of the Capitol, a group of Republicans purported to do the same thing for Trump.
They signed official-looking documents stating Trump had won even though the state Supreme Court had ruled just an hour earlier that Biden was the victor. They sent the material to the U.S. Senate, the National Archives, Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette and a federal judge.
The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 breaching of the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed former Republican Party of Wisconsin chairman Andrew Hitt and Eighth Congressional District Republican Party chairwoman Kelly Ruh, who acted as electors, as part of their probe.
Wisconsin Republican Party's chairman, Andrew Hitt.
Troupis, Hitt and Ruh did not respond to messages from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Hitt, an Appleton attorney who stepped down as chairman of the GOP last year, said in a statement last week that he would comply with the subpoena. He said he had followed legal advice in meeting as an elector, but did not say last week who offered that advice.
Ruh is a De Pere council member seeking reelection.
At the time they filed the paperwork, Wisconsin Republicans said they wanted to preserve their chances of claiming the presidency in case Trump and his allies won long-shot appeals to a string of lawsuits challenging the election results. Those legal efforts proved fruitless as courts across the country threw out dozens of cases.
Kelly Ruh
In the Nov. 18, 2020, memo, Chesebro assured Troupis the move was justified.
"It may seem odd that the electors pledged to Trump and Pence might meet and cast their votes on December 14 even if, at that juncture, the Trump-Pence ticket is behind in the vote count, and no certificate of election has been issued in favor of Trump and Pence," he wrote. "However, a fair reading of the federal statutes suggests that this is a reasonable course of action."
The memo to Troupis was used by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and others to develop a strategy to "exploit ambiguities in the Electoral Count Act,"according to the Times' reporting.
Then-Gov. Scott Walker appointed Troupis to the bench in liberal Dane County in 2015.Troupis gave up his seat the next year, before his term was up. He hoped at the time to have Walker appoint him to the state Supreme Court.
During the recounts of Dane and Milwaukee counties, Troupis sought to throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots that were cast in person — an argument that included tossing his own ballot, and his wife's.
Troupis and his wife voted early using the state's in-person absentee option — one of a group of voters whose ballots the Trump campaign unsuccessfully asked election officials to deem illegal.
In all, the Trump campaign sought to eliminate all in-person early votes; all mailed-in absentee ballots if written applications for them could not be tracked down; all votes submitted by those who say they are indefinitely confined; and all absentee ballots where clerks wrote in the addresses of witnesses. None of their requests were granted.
U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore of Wisconsin have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the 10 Republicans who signed on as Trump electors. Lawyers for a group that filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission over the false electors have told the commission it will soon take the matter to court if the commission, which has been in possession of the complaint for nearly a year, does not act soon.
Patrick Marley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.
Contact Molly Beck at molly.beck@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @MollyBeck.
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Dem AG Josh Kaul this morning filed felony charges against attorneys Jim Troupis and Kenneth Chesebro, as well as former Donald Trump campaign aide Michael Roman, stemming from the false electors scheme in Wisconsin.
Kaul filed a class H felony against each of the three this morning in Dane County Circuit Court, according to online records. Each has an initial appearance scheduled for Sept. 19.
Kaul, who has faced criticism for the pace of his investigation into the scheme, scheduled a noon news conference today to discuss the development.
Troupis, of Cross Plains, and Chesebro, who lists a San Juan address in court records, were part of the legal team that advised Wisconsin’s 10 GOP electors to meet and cast their votes for Trump even though Joe Biden won the state in 2020. Republicans have argued that move was to preserve Trump’s legal options as he challenged the results.
Roman was indicted alongside Trump in the Georgia election interference case and has been connected to probes into other states where similar schemes were carried out.
See more in today’s PM Update.
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In 2020, a group of Wisconsin Republicans, following instructions from partisan attorneys, cast fake electoral college votes as part of a nationwide scheme to overturn the results of the presidential election when Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. Law Forward has spent three years pursuing accountability and transparency from those responsible, to ensure this scheme never recurs.
We recently obtained and publishedthousands of documents that clarify the scheme’s origins, development, and connection to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. These records reveal conclusively that the leaders of the scheme acted in bad faith, desperate to keep Donald Trump in power at all costs. Just this week, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced felony criminal charges for three of the actors involved in this scheme: Jim Troupis, Ken Chesbro and Mike Roman.
Nearly four years later, we are still living with the consequences of the fake elector scheme. Election denialism and conspiracy theories continue to poison our public life. The 2020 election was free, fair, and secure, but recent polling shows that 31% of Wisconsinites — and a majority of Wisconsin Republicans — lack confidence in our elections. Election officials face unprecedented threats and harassment. Families are divided because they cannot agree on even provable, basic facts. Trump and his allies continue to seek to evade criminal responsibility for their actions. And all this traces back to claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Fake electors did not act in good faith in 2020 election
Nevertheless, commentators continue to downplay the importance and nefariousness of the fake elector scheme. For example, earlier this year in the Journal Sentinel Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig argued that Republicans who cast electoral votes for Donald Trump in 2020 acted in good faith, and he insisted that criticizing them for preserving legal options is harmful. But his argument hinged on a flawed premise, because the architects of the scheme were focused not on obtaining legitimate legal relief, but on using chaos and delay to keep Trump in office—and their tactics facilitated the violence of Jan. 6. This bad-faith, profoundly antidemocratic scheme deserves to be condemned. To excuse or minimize the fake elector scheme is to minimize the damage it has already done, and worse, set the stage for further anti-democratic gambits we can ill afford.
About those Wisconsin 'fake electors':They had sound reason to vote for Trump
The two men most responsible for the fake-elector scheme, both of whom settled with our clients this spring, are Jim Troupis and Ken Chesebro. Troupis, the Trump Campaign’s top lawyer in Wisconsin for the 2020 election, brought Chesebro onto his team shortly after the election. The day after Biden was declared the winner of Wisconsin, Chesebro floated the fake-elector idea as a way to throw the election to Trump. The emails and memos Chesebro generated over the ensuing weeks display an amoral, kitchen-sink approach to challenging the election results, with the explicit goal to sow enough chaos that the Wisconsin Legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, or Vice President Mike Pence would somehow keep Trump in power.
Right off the bat, in 2020 Chesebro explained to Troupis that he wanted to generate “such a cloud of confusion” that “no votes from WI (and perhaps also MI and PA) should be counted, perhaps enough to throw the election to the House.” Later, Chesebro suggested the Trump team “use delay in litigation to try to win in the state legislature on Dec. 8,” promoting the dangerous idea that the Wisconsin Legislature could and should overrule the will of the voters. On Dec. 8, Chesebro wrote to Troupis: “On reflection, I think having the electors send in alternate slates of votes on Dec. 14 can pay huge dividends even if there is no litigation pending on Jan. 6....”
More: See Law Forward's timeline and documents from the case
Texts between Troupis and Chesebro reveal they planned to implement the fake-elector scheme regardless of what the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled. On the eve of Dec. 14, the day of the electoral college meeting, Troupis asked Chesebro: “Is everything under control for tomorrow electors vote? ... Just want to be sure we preserve our options here without regard to what Wi S Crt rules.” And if the fake electoral ballots were truly provisional, they could have said so. In Pennsylvania and New Mexico, Republican leaders added language clarifying that the votes should be counted only in the event of a future court victory. Chesebro knew that other states were using provisional language. Yet neither he nor Troupis nor anyone else included such language in Wisconsin.
After losing in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Troupis and Chesebro’s continued litigation on behalf of the Trump Campaign was half-hearted at best. As they considered appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, Chesebro admitted to Troupis, “Here the strategy is inherently political, because the value of the litigation is in part to influence Congress on Jan. 6.” There is no evidence that they even considered asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court for reconsideration, which Lessig labels a viable legal option. Instead, they waited weeks, until shortly before Jan. 6, before filing their frivolous petition in the U.S. Supreme Court, which rejected it.
We must hold participants accountable for plot against democracy
Chesebro and Troupis could have abandoned their plan any time before January 6, 2021. Instead, they doubled down. On Dec. 16, 2020, they met secretly with Trump. Three days later, after Trump infamously tweeted about Jan. 6, “It will be WILD,” Chesebro texted Troupis: “Wow based on 3 days ago, I think we have unique understanding of this.” On Jan. 6, Troupis personally pushed Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson to transmit Wisconsin’s fake electoral votes to Pence, in hopes he would count them instead of the real ones, handing the election to Trump. There is a difference between good-faith legal arguments and unethical efforts to undermine democracy through delay and chaos. Chesebro and Troupis engaged in the latter.
Kenneth Chesebro’s ‘random’ insurrection tweets prove the internet is forever | OpinionTroupis and Chesebro are guilty. Don't let their lawyers convince you otherwise. | LettersFake electors continue to make weak excuses. They deserve severe consequences. | LettersDon't turn a blind eye to Trump's lies. We all suffer from cheating. | LettersInterview with ex-Republican chair shows threat of armed coup is real in America | LettersRon Johnson tried to overthrow fair election. He should pay price for his role. | LettersDonald Trump led insurrection, Ron Johnson took part. Time for accountability. | Letters
To maintain our democracy, we must speak honestly about the threats it faces and hold the threat-makers accountable. On Dec. 14, 2020, under Troupis and Chesebro’s direction, ten Wisconsinites cast fake electoral votes that were used in an effort to override the votes of 3.3 million Wisconsinites. Chesebro, Troupis, and others acted in bad faith. They have all since agreed never to participate in such a scheme again. But real accountability requires more — it requires all of us to take seriously the harm they caused and ensure no one can ever do it again.
*Jeff Mandell is the president and Scott Thompson is an attorney at Law Forward, a liberal advocacy group based in Madison.
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troupis received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law.[1]
Career
Prior to his appointment to the Dane County Circuit Court, Troupis maintained his own law practice, specializing in intellectual property and constitutional law. He also previously practiced law with the firm of Michael Best & Friedrich and served as a law clerk for the Illinois Supreme Court.[1]
Troupis also served as a campaign attorney for Republican President Donald Trump.[3]
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Lawsuit seeks $2.4M damages from Wisconsin fake GOP electors
Madison, Wis. – Two Wisconsin Democratic electors and a voter on Tuesday sued Republicans who attempted to cast electoral ballots for Donald Trump in 2020 despite Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state.
Their lawsuit filed in Dane County Circuit Court alleges a conspiracy by Trump and his allies to overturn his loss in the presidential race, calling it “as legally baseless as it was repugnant to democracy.” It seeks up to $2.4 million in damages as well as disqualifying the Republicans from ever serving as electors again.
The plaintiffs say it’s the first such lawsuit in the seven swing states where GOP electors falsely declared Trump the winner and cast their votes for him in December 2020.
“It’s essential to have accountability and to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” said Jeffrey Mandell, an attorney for the plaintiffs. “We have heard in the more than a year since the fraudulent electors met the excuse that what they did was not wrong, it was totally fine. We want a court to make clear that is not true.”
Republican electors named in the lawsuit who have spoken publicly about what they did have long argued that they weren’t trying to change the Wisconsin result. Instead, they said they were trying to preserve all their legal options in case a court ruled in favor of Trump.
A Trump campaign official, Stephen Miller, said on Fox News in December 2020 that the GOP slate of electors sent their results to Congress to “ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open.”
The lawsuit names 10 Republican electors and two attorneys who the lawsuit said aided their efforts. The attorneys are Boston-area lawyer Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin. The lawsuit cites a memo Chesebro sent to Troupis in November 2020 detailing the elector plan.
In that memo, Chesebro wrote that “It may seem odd that the electors pledged to Trump and (Vice President Mike) Pence might meet and cast their votes” but a fair reading of federal law “suggests that this is a reasonable course of action.”
Chesebro, when reached by phone and told of the lawsuit, said “Thank you for letting me know I will check into that” before he hung up. Troupis did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.
Kelly Ruh, one of the 10 electors, said she was not aware of the lawsuit and had no immediate comment. Other defendants contacted did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission, working from an analysis by the state’s Department of Justice that generally accepted that argument, earlier concluded that the Republicans did not break any election laws. But the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is also looking into the actions of GOP electors, with subpoenas to at least 20 people who were part of the Republican effort in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The U.S. Department of Justice also is investigating.
Biden defeated Trump in Wisconsin by just under 21,000 votes. That outcome has withstood recounts Trump ordered in the state’s two largest counties, multiple state and federal lawsuits, an independent audit and a review by a conservative law firm. An investigation by The Associated Press of potential voter fraud cases in the battleground states where Trump challenged the results found far too few to affect the outcome of the race.
The lawsuit asks that the Republican electors and the attorneys be fined $2,000 each and pay up to $200,000 each in punitive damages. The lawsuit calls for punitive damages to go to plaintiffs. Mel Barnes, an attorney for Law Forward, said the goal is deterrence, not profit.
“No one joined this lawsuit for the personal gain,” she said.
Electors in the seven states signed certificates falsely stating that Trump, not Biden, had won their states. They mailed those certificates to the National Archives and Congress, where they were ignored. However, several of Trump’s Republican allies in the House and Senate used them to justify delaying or blocking the certification of the election during the joint session of Congress.
On two of the certificates, from New Mexico and Pennsylvania, the Republican electors added a caveat saying the certificate was submitted in case they were later recognized as duly elected, qualified electors. That would only have been possible if Trump had won any of the several dozen legal challenges he filed in the weeks after the election. Instead, he lost them all.
Wisconsin Republicans gathered on Dec. 14, 2020, in the state Capitol in Madison. The state’s 10 Democratic electors, which included lawsuit plaintiffs Khary Penebaker and Mary Arnold, were meeting in the building at the same time. The third plaintiff, Bonnie Joseph, is identified simply as a voter “who objects to Defendants’ unlawful interference” in the Electoral College.
The lawsuit argues the Republicans made unlawful use of public resources when they met at the Capitol.
The Democratic electors who brought the lawsuit are represented by the liberal Law Forward law firm and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center. It was Law Forward that earlier brought the complaint that was rejected by the state elections commission.
The groups said they had no immediate plans to file similar lawsuits in the other swing states.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/us/trump-emails-eastman-chesebro-jan-6.html
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Trump Lawyer Cited ‘Heated Fight’ Among Justices Over Election Suits
In an email weeks after the election, another lawyer advising the Trump campaign responded that the prospect of “‘wild’ chaos” on Jan. 6 could lead the Supreme Court to take up a case.
By Luke Broadwater and Maggie Haberman
June 15, 2022
WASHINGTON — A lawyer advising President Donald J. Trump claimed in an email after Election Day 2020 to have insight into a “heated fight” among the Supreme Court justices over whether to hear arguments about the president’s efforts to overturn his defeat at the polls, two people briefed on the email said.
The lawyer, John Eastman, made the statement in a Dec. 24, 2020, exchange with a pro-Trump lawyer and Trump campaign officials over whether to file legal papers that they hoped might prompt four justices to agree to hear an election case from Wisconsin.
“So the odds are not based on the legal merits but an assessment of the justices’ spines, and I understand that there is a heated fight underway,” Mr. Eastman wrote, according to the people briefed on the contents of the email. Referring to the process by which at least four justices are needed to take up a case, he added, “For those willing to do their duty, we should help them by giving them a Wisconsin cert petition to add into the mix.”
The pro-Trump lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, replied that the “odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be ‘wild’ chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way.”
Their exchange took place five days after Mr. Trump issued a call for his supporters to attend a “protest” at the Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, the day Congress would certify the electoral vote count confirming Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory. “Be there. Will be wild!” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter.
The previously unreported exchange is part of a group of emails obtained by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol by a mob of Mr. Trump’s supporters.
Mr. Chesebro’s comment about the justices being more open to hearing a case if they fear chaos was striking for its link to the potential for the kind of mob scene that materialized at the Capitol weeks later.
And Mr. Eastman’s email, if taken at face value, raised the question of how he would have known about internal tension among the justices about dealing with election cases. Mr. Eastman had been a clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.
The committee is also reviewing emails between Mr. Eastman and Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Thomas. Ms. Thomas was an outspoken supporter of Mr. Trump and in the period after Election Day sent a barrage of text messages to the Trump White House urging efforts to reverse the outcome and supported a variety of efforts to keep Mr. Trump in office.
It was not immediately clear when the communications took place between Ms. Thomas and Mr. Eastman or what they discussed. The existence of the emails between Mr. Eastman and Ms. Thomas was reported earlier by The Washington Post.
[The Themes of the Jan. 6 House Committee Hearings
Making a Case Against Trump: The committee appears to be laying out a road map for prosecutors to indict former President Donald J. Trump. But the path to any trial is uncertain.
Day One: During the first hearing, the panel presented a gripping story with a sprawling cast of characters, but only three main players: Mr. Trump, the Proud Boys and a Capitol Police officer.
Day Two: In its second hearing, the committee showed how Mr. Trump ignored aides and advisers in declaring victory prematurely and relentlessly pressing claims of fraud he was told were wrong.
Day Three: Mr. Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence to go along with a plan to overturn his loss even after he was told it was illegal, according to testimony laid out by the panel during the third hearing.]
A federal judge recently ordered Mr. Eastman to turn over documents to the panel from the period after the November 2020 election when he was meeting with conservative groups to discuss fighting the election results.
After debating internally about whether to seek an interview with Ms. Thomas, members of the committee have said in recent weeks that they do not see her actions as central to the plans to overturn the election.
Representative Elaine Luria, Democrat of Virginia and a member of the committee, told NBC News last weekend that Ms. Thomas was “not the focus of this investigation.”
But her contact with Mr. Eastman could add a new dimension to the inquiry.
A federal judge has already concluded in a civil case that Mr. Trump and Mr. Eastman “more likely than not” had committed two felonies, including conspiracy to defraud the American people, in their attempts to overturn the election.
Mr. Chesebro, and lawyers for Mr. Eastman and Ms. Thomas, did not respond to requests for comment.
Word of the exchanges between Mr. Eastman, Mr. Chesebro and the campaign lawyers emerged as the House committee prepared for a public hearing on Thursday to present new details of the intense pressure campaign Mr. Trump and Mr. Eastman waged against Vice President Mike Pence, which the panel says directly contributed to the violent siege of Congress.
The public hearing, the panel’s third this month as it lays out the steps Mr. Trump took to try to overturn the 2020 election, is scheduled for 1 p.m. The committee plans to release materials detailing the threats of violence against Mr. Pence, and the ways the vice president’s security team scrambled to try to keep him safe from the mob.
The email exchange involving Mr. Eastman and Mr. Chesebro included a request, which appears to have been denied, that the Trump campaign pay for the effort to get another case in front of the Supreme Court. In the emails, Mr. Chesebro made clear that he did not consider the odds of success to be good, but he pressed to try, laying out why he claimed the election was invalid.
Mr. Eastman said that he and Mr. Chesebro “are of similar” minds and that the legal arguments “are rock solid,” before going on to describe what he said were the divisions among the justices and the benefits of giving them another chance to take up an election case.
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In the previous several weeks, the court had turned aside two other efforts to consider election-related suits brought by allies of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Chesebro then replied, according to the people briefed on the exchange: “I don’t have the personal insight that John has into the four justices likely to be most upset about what is happening in the various states, who might want to intervene, so I should make it clear that I don’t discount John’s estimate.”
He went on that he agreed that “getting this on file gives more ammo to the justices fighting for the court to intervene.”
“I think the odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be ‘wild’ chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way,” he said. “Though that factor could go against us on the merits. Easiest way to quell chaos would be to rule against us — our side would accept that result as legitimate.”
Mr. Chesebro concluded: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. A campaign that believes it really won the election would file a petition as long as it’s plausible and the resource constraints aren’t too great.”
In the weeks after the election, Mr. Chesebro wrote a string of memos supporting a plan to send so-called alternate electors to Congress for the certification. A little more than two weeks after Election Day, Mr. Chesebro sent a memo to James Troupis, another lawyer for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, laying out a plan to name pro-Trump electors in the state, which was won by Mr. Biden.
Mr. Chesebro also sent a Dec. 13, 2020, email to Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer who was by then leading the legal efforts to overturn the election results. In it, he encouraged Mr. Pence to “firmly take the position that he, and he alone, is charged with the constitutional responsibility not just to open the votes, but to count them — including making judgments about what to do if there are conflicting votes.”
That idea took root with Mr. Trump, who engaged in a lengthy effort to convince Mr. Pence that he could block or delay the congressional certification of Mr. Biden’s victory on Jan. 6.
The House committee’s hearing on Thursday is set to feature testimony from J. Michael Luttig, a conservative former judge who advised Mr. Pence that Mr. Trump’s push for the vice president to unilaterally decide to invalidate election results was unconstitutional, and that he should not go along with the plan.
Also scheduled to appear is Greg Jacob, Mr. Pence’s top White House lawyer, who has provided the committee with crucial evidence about the role played by Mr. Eastman, who conceded during an email exchange with Mr. Jacob that his plan to overturn the election was in “violation” of federal law.
The committee is also expected to play video from an interview it recorded with Mr. Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short. A day before the mob violence, Mr. Short grew so concerned about Mr. Trump’s actions that he presented a warning to a Secret Service agent: The president was going to publicly turn against the vice president, and there could be a security risk to Mr. Pence because of it.
The committee is not expected to display any of the new emails it received involving Ms. Thomas on Thursday, according to two people familiar with the presentation.
Ms. Thomas, known as Ginni, is a conservative political activist who became a close ally of Mr. Trump during his presidency. After he lost the election, she sent a series of messages to Mr. Trump’s final chief of staff, Mark Meadows, Arizona lawmakers and others pushing for the election to be overturned.
The Jan. 6 committee has been presenting the televised hearings as a series of movie-length chapters laying out the different ways Mr. Trump tried to cling to power. After an initial prime-time hearing that drew more than 20 million viewers, in which the panel sought to establish that the former president was at the center of the plot, investigators focused their second hearing on how Mr. Trump spread the lie of a stolen election.
The committee is expected to detail on Thursday some of its findings about the plot involving pro-Trump electors. The panel will present evidence that the White House counsel also concluded that the vice president had no legal power to throw out legitimate electoral votes for the fake electors Mr. Trump’s team put forward.
Investigators will show how Mr. Trump was advised that his plans were unlawful but he pressed forward with them anyway, committee aides said.
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EXPLAINER: Trump’s failing, monthlong fight against election
Dec. 3, 2020 at 9:36 pm UpdatedDec. 4, 2020
Election workers, right, verify ballots on Nov. 20, 2020, as recount observers, left, watch during a Milwaukee hand recount of presidential votes at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify hundreds of thousands of ballots in a longshot attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the battleground state he lost by nearly 20,700 votes. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh File)
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
The Associated Press
President Donald Trump’s frantic effort in the courts to delegitimize an election he lost has come no closer in a month to reversing any results.
Lawyers for Trump and his allies have asked judges in several states to take the drastic and unprecedented step of setting aside President-elect Joe Biden’s wins. They have filed new cases and vowed to press on with appeals.
But the quantity of affidavits, lawsuits and claims made by Trump belies that they are spurious or often repetitive of arguments already rejected by judges and elections officials, some of them Republicans.
Here is a look at where the legal action stands in several key states:
ARIZONA
A judge was holding a trial beginning Thursday brought by state Republican Party chair Kelli Ward alleging irregularities in signature verification on mail-in ballots. The judge let Ward’s lawyers and experts compare the signatures on 100 mail-in ballot envelopes with signatures on file to determine whether there were any irregularities. Ward’s lawyers found two problems: One person’s vote for Trump was ultimately recorded as a vote for Biden, and another person’s Trump vote was canceled because the ballot had votes for both Trump and a write-in candidate.
Courts there have already dismissed four other cases.Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, certified Arizona’s results on Monday. In a touch of symbolism, he declined a phone call from Trump while signing the certification papers. Lawyer Sidney Powell, who was recently kicked off Trump’s legal team and has been pushing wild conspiracy theories about the election, has also filed a lawsuit there.
PENNSYLVANIA
Trump has lost repeatedly in Pennsylvania, collecting a series of stinging rebukes from Republican-appointed judges. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a district judge’s dismissal of a key lawsuit argued in an error-filled performance by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
“Voters, not lawyers, choose the president. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections,” wrote Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, nominated by Trump.
The district judge, Matthew Brann, wrote of the complaint, “One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption.” Brann, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, noted that the campaign did not provide that evidence.
Trump’s lawyers have vowed to ask for review from the U.S. Supreme Court anyway.
MICHIGAN
Six cases brought by Trump and Republican allies in Michigan have either been rejected or dropped. On Wednesday, Giuliani appeared at a public meeting with lawmakers and urged activists to pressure, even threaten, the GOP-controlled Legislature to “step up” and award the state’s 16 electoral votes to Trump despite Biden’s 154,000-vote victory.
WISCONSIN
The state’s Supreme Court [prosser?!] on Thursday refused to hearTrump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn his loss in the battleground state. In a divided decision, the court didn’t rule on the merits of the claims but said the case must first wind its way through lower courts. Trump wants to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state’s two biggest Democratic counties, alleging irregularities in the way absentee ballots were administered. In urging the Supreme Court to hear the case, Trump’s lawyers said they didn’t have enough time to start in a lower court.
Trump’s attorney Jim Troupis said he would immediately file the case in circuit court and expected to be back before the Supreme Court “very soon.”
Trump’s campaign filed a similar lawsuit in federal court Wednesday. Two other lawsuits filed by conservatives are still pending with the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Powell has also filed a lawsuit seeking an order todecertify the election results in the state.
Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis., David Eggert in Lansing, Mich., and Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix contributed to this report.
[note also zuck BS in ROLF/RAGA email war games]
carter baker report
clerks WI tens of k's changed envelopes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD7sejuBIl4
zuck took over local election racine to green bay [heh]; rubenstein? operative for zuck in rm (election ct?]
fmr judge dane cty
milwaukee cty 2004 bush-cheney team?
normal? state audit "aggressive"
then janelle branch audit comm fraudit forensic; more voters than ppl, 400 ppl at one address (goes to 23 when asked]
can't do whole state so focus on problems in "classic forensic audit" az too broad
ppl vote by mail then show up at poll (he has no # but sez pvt groups have studied]
PA violated absentee (no proof gotten of hardship)
3 groups coord
thos moore soccovid safe voting plan, 10 mil$ "vote navigation, gather ballot drop box;
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The Journal-Sentinel also reports that "Prosser attorney Jim Troupis has already said the incumbent's campaign would have hundreds of volunteers, including some flying in from around the country, to monitor the recounts." Prosser had initially hired the D.C. lawyer who represented George W. Bush during the infamous 2000 Florida recount that made "W" president, but has apparently replaced him with Troupis, the go-to election lawyer for Wisconsin Republicans.
In the past year Troupis has represented Americans for Prosperity in a challenge to fair election rules, legislative Republicans in redistricting efforts, and Club for Growth in a case to compel Senate Democrats back into the state. (See OneWisconsinNow's 2009 Troupis bio here). He also sits on the Board of Directors of the right-wing, Koch-connected think tank MacIver Institute.
Jim Troupis: Know Your Republican MacIver Institute Board Member
Posted by Scot Ross on March 6, 2009
Now that the Republicans have opened the MacIver Institute, yet another GOP front group to go with the Wisconsin Public Research Institute, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, Wisconsin Institute for Leadership, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, Americans for Prosperity, Coalition for America’s Families, Club for Growth, All Children Matter, Americans for Tax Reform, Wisconsin Family Council and School Choice Wisconsin (whew), One Wisconsin Now thought it might be good for the media to have information on exactly who the leaders of this Republican operation are.
Cory Liebmann did some phenomenal investigation as the group readied its launch. One of the key figures surrounding this new organization is former Assembly Speaker, Republican Scott Jensen. Jensen, who was convicted in the so-called caucus scandal and currently spends his time making money from pro-privatizing public education forces.
After Liebmann’s reporting, the nubie MacIver Institute took immediate steps to “distance” itself from Jensen’s reported leadership.
So a quick bio on Jim Troupis, a MacIver board member and partner at the Michael, Best and Friedrich law firm.
• Troupis was hired at taxpayer expense to serve as the 2002 redistricting lawyer for Scott Jensen and his then-majority GOP Assembly caucus. It’s not the first time Troupis had this role, as he served as a lawyer 10 years earlier for then-Assembly Republican leader, Jensen political mentor and current Supreme Court Justice David Prosser.Jensen hired Troupis to represent Assembly Republicans with 17-month agreed retainer of staggering $120,000 a month. In the end, Jensen and Troupis spent over $1 million of taxpayer money to try and muscle through a pro-GOP legislative boundaries map.
• Troupis served as attorney for scandal-plagued Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler in her infamous ethics investigation where she was given a first-ever admonishment by her peers on the Supreme Court. Ziegler, as One Wisconsin Now’s research unearthed, repeatedly ruled on cases in which the bank where husband was a paid member of the board of directors was a party to the case. Ziegler ruled repeatedly in favor of the bank without letting parties to the cases know her enormous glaring conflict.
• Troupis helped then-unknown lawyer Mike Gableman circumvent the merit selection process and gain his Burnett County judgeship. Troupis was the head of McCallum’s legal selection committee. One Wisconsin Now’s investigation showed thatGableman gave then-Gov. McCallum $1,250, made fundraising calls from his taxpayer-funded office for a fundraiser for McCallum and then was tapped by McCallum to be a judge – all in direct contrast to the claimed selection process Troupis was in charge of administering. Gableman, now a Supreme Court Justice, remains under investigation by the Office of Lawyer Regulation for this potential violation of the legal code, which could result in his disbarment. Eric MacLeod, a fellow Michael Best lawyer like Troupis, is Gableman’s defense lawyer in this and in his ethics imbroglio over the racist ad Gableman ran in his Supreme Court race.
•Troupis is a donor to the legal defense fund for Jensen, established to pay for legal bills for Jensen's felony misconduct in office case. Jensen was found guilty in the case and is currently appealing the felony conviction. Michael Best was paid $180,000 with taxpayers dollars by Assembly Republicans to advise them in the scandal.
MacIver promises a “fresh and innovative approach to advance the idea that individual freedom, limited government and personal responsibility….” Blah, blah, blah, I stopped paying attention…
I’m sure we all look forward to the innovation used in selling the same garbage GOP message of lower taxes for the rich and business, less regulation and accountability for corporations that violate workers’ rights and foul our air and water and land as if they are the sole owners.
My guess is they’ll do it the way they always have. They’ll buy TV ads to smear progressives or they’ll get any number of pro-corporate media sycophants to report their skewed reports as reputable data.
Or maybe, like the Wisconsin Institute for Leadership, they’ll issue their own “awards,” like WIL did with GOP Rep. Brett Davis a fellow shill for private school advocate K12, Inc. WIL's 527 received its one and only contribution, $50,000, from K12, Inc.
(Incidentally, we at One Wisconsin Now, oft-refer to the WIL award as the “Second Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Area of Excellence.”)
Whoa. Maybe they’ll do all three. Using the internets.
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The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy is a Wisconsin-based think tank and a member of the State Policy Network (SPN). According to its website, the MacIver Institute promotes free markets, individual freedom, personal responsibility, and limited government.[1][2]According to One Wisconsin Now, the MacIver Institute is "a pro-corporate organization founded in 2009 to advance conservative ideas and values. . . Its top staff [are] long-time Republican campaign strategists and its board of directors includes leading Republicans, most notably Mark Block, the head of Americans for Prosperity-WI[;] Fred Lubar, deep-pocketed Republican donor[;] andJim Troupis, lawyer to leading Republicans such as Assembly Speaker **Scott Jensen** and ethically-challenged Supreme Court Justices Mike Gableman and Annette Ziegler.[3]...
MacIver's "investigative reporter" is Bill Osmulski.[46]
Board member James Troupis is a Republican lawyer-for-hire who has been tied up with the gerrymandering scandal. He has worked for Wisconsin State Supreme Court’s David Prosser, Michael Gableman, and Anette Ziegler. Troupis was also the legal mastermind behind Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s decision to issue arrest warrants to the 14 Democrat senators who left the state of Wisconsin to in opposition to Walker’s "Collective Bargaining Bill."[47]
Other prominent Wisconsin Republican operatives connected to the organization include Bill Klauser, a top administrator for Governor Tommy Thompson, and Michael Grebe, head of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.[48]
Background
According to the Eye on Wisconsin blog, the domain name maciverinstitute.com was privately registered in December, 2008, "with no one willing to lay public claim to the new org[anization]."[49]
Board
- Fred Luber, Board Chair
- Steve Fettig of Delavan, WIBoard Vice Chair,
- Jim Troupis of Madison
- Laurie McCallum, former First Lady of Wisconsin
- Gerardo (Jerry) H. Gonzalez of Milwaukee (partner with Gonzalez, Saggio and Harlan LLP)[50]
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Campaign Finance Primer: the Impact of McCutcheon on the States
Kenneth Gross leads Skadden’s Political Law practice and advises clients on matters relating to the regulation of political activity. A nationally renowned authority on campaign law compliance, gift and gratuity rules, lobby registration provisions, and securities laws regulating political activity and municipal securities transactions, Mr. Gross counsels numerous Fortune 500 corporations and political candidates at the state and federal level. As the FEC, Mr. Gross headed the general counsel’s Enforcement Division and supervised the legal staff charged with review of the FEC’s Audit Division. He advises elected officials as well as candidates facing various federal and state races. A frequent featured guest on CNN, Fox News, NPR Radio and other media outlets, Mr. Gross was CNN’s on-air election law analyst during the 2000 Florida election dispute and made daily appearances in covering the election. He also advised NBC’s television show “The West Wing” on election law issues that arose in the show’s scripts.
Judicial Campaigns
Justice Thomas R. Phillips is the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. He was appointed Chief Justice in 1998 and re-elected four times until his retirement. During his tenor as Chief Justice, he served as President of the Conference on Chief Justices in 1997-1998, a member of the Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States from1989-1996 and as a member of the American Bar Association Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary from 2002-2003. Chief Justice Philips received his JD from Harvard Law School and his BA from Baylor University. The Baylor Alumni Association has named him as a Distinguished alumnus, and he has also received the Price Daniel Distinguished Public Service Award (2004), the Outstanding Mentor Award (2009-10), the Justice Award (2007), the Henry L. Carircco Judicial Innovation Award (2005), and the Professionalism in Law Award (2004). Mr. Phillips now serves as a partner in the Austin Office of Baker Botts, LLP
Bradley Smith is one of the nation’s leading authorities on Election Law and Campaign Finance, former Federal Election Commission Chairman Bradley A. Smith is the Josiah H. Blackmore/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio and the Founder and Chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics in Alexandria, Virginia. Professor Smith served on Federal Election Commission (FEC) for five years, and was the Commission’s Vice-Chairman in 2003 and Chairman during the presidential election year of 2004. Smith left the Commission in August, 2005, to return to teaching and the practice of law. Professor Smith is a member of the Editorial Board of the Election Law Journal, of the Board of Advisors of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and of the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Law & Politics at the University of Minnesota Law School. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group. Professor Smith has also served as an election observer with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and spoken overseas on behalf of the International Republican Institute. A cum laude graduate of both Kalamazoo College and Harvard Law School, Professor Smith has also taught at George Mason University School of Law. His teaching has included Election Law, Comparative ElectionLaw, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Law & Economics, and Jurisprudence.
Justice Penny J. White (fmr.) is the E.E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law and theDirector of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Justice White earned her J.D. from the University of Tennessee where she served as Editor in Chief of the Tennessee Law Review and was named to Order of the Coif. She received her LLM. from Georgetown University Law Center where she was an E. Barrett Fellow. Beforebeginning law teaching, White served as a judge in all courts of record in Tennessee, including most recently the Tennessee Supreme Court. At the College of Law, White has received the Harold C. Warner Outstanding TeacherAward; the Yarborough Award for Writing Excellence for her article “Relinquished Responsibilities,” which was published in the November 2009 edition of the Harvard Law Review; the Bass, Berry, and Sims Award for Service to the Bench and Bar; the Bernstein-Ritchie Award for Extraordinary Service to the Legal Clinic; the Carden Award for Scholarship; and the Carden Award for Service to the Institution. In addition to teaching at UT and directing the Center, White has demonstrated a particular interest in continuing legal education. As a judicial educator, White was awarded the National Judicial College’s V. Robert Payant award for teaching excellence in 2009.
Virginia Election War Game
Jessica R. Amunson (Kaine Attorney) is a Partner in the Election Law and Redistricting Practice Group at Jenner & Block in Washington DC. Ms. Amunson concentrates her practice in appellate and Supreme Court matters. She has significant experience briefing and arguing matters before both federal and state appellate courts and is frequently called on to assist in merits and amicus briefing before the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Amunson also focuses on election law and redistricting, and is actively involved in litigating as well as advising in redistricting matters in a number of states. Ms. Amunson represented candidate Christine Jennings in Jennings v. Election Canvassing Commission, an election contest over the 2006 race in Florida's 13th Congressional District, in which Ms. Jennings pursued the source code and a full forensic examination of the electronic voting machines after they produced more than 18,000 undervotes in one county. Ms. Amunson also recently appeared in an Election Law Program online lecture in a video lecture, "Redistricting Litigation: What Every Judge Needs to Know."
Stefan C. Passantino (Allen Attorney) is the head of the Political Law Team at McKenna Long & Aldridge where he leads the firm's publication of the Pay-to-Play blog. Washingtonian Magazine recognized Mr. Passantino as one of the "Best Legal Minds in Washington" in the field of Campaign and Election law in December 2011. Mr. Passantino is a regular contributor and commentator for CNN Radio, POLITICO, The Hill, FOX News, Roll Call, The Washington Post, and USA Today, among others, and is the co-author of the Handbook on Corporate Political Activity: Emerging Corporate Governance Issues. Mr. Passantino recently served as National Counsel to the Gingrich presidential campaign and represented former Speaker Newt Gingrich in Virginia's January ballot access litigation, and is currently a guest lecturer on campaign finance for Emory School of Law and the Georgia State University College of Law.
Colorado Election War Game
Martha M. Tierney (Perlmutter Attorney) is an attorney at Heizer, Paul & Grueskin in Denver. Ms. Tierney’s practice emphasizes dispute resolution through mediation and litigation in state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies. She specializes in election/political law, employment law, civil rights and complex business litigation. Ms. Tierney currently acts as counsel for the Colorado Democratic Party. She is a member of the Common Cause National Governing Board and a member of the Colorado Common Cause Board of Directors. She co-chairs the Colorado Lawyers Committee’s Election Task Force and is a member of the Colorado Secretary of State’s Best Practices & Vision Commission. Ms. Tierney is a cooperating attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the Faculty of Federal Advocates.
Mario D. Nicolais (Coors Attorney) is an attorney at the Hackstaff Law Group in Denver. Mr. Nicolais is a leading expert in the fields of Election Law and Campaign Finance. In addition to advising many multi-million dollar campaigns on both the state and federal level, he has successfully litigated and argued cases before courts ranging from the Denver District Court to the Colorado Supreme Court. Most notably, Mr. Nicolais argued and won a unanimous opinion from the Colorado Supreme Court in the 2011 case Colorado Ethics Watch v Senate Majority Fund. He frequently speaks on these issues before groups across the state and as a regular media contributor. Mr. Nicolais also practices in the firm’s Energy, Real Estate, and Nonprofit groups. Prior to joining Hackstaff Gessler, Mr. Nicolais served as a Senior Research Analyst for the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee, the Political Director for the 2004 Bob Schaffer for US Senate campaign and a former general consultant for Coffman for Treasurer 2002. Mr. Nicolais also has previous experience working for a tax negotiation firm.
Wisconsin Election War Game
James R. Troupis (Kleinman Attorney) For over three decades, Mr. Troupis has practiced law at all levels of the federal court system, as well as the state courts of Wisconsin and Illinois. Mr. Troupis' practice focuses on general civil litigation and appellate work. He has extensive trial experience, including litigating campaign finance and redistricting cases. In addition to acting as lead Wisconsin counsel for Romney for President and lead Wisconsin litigation counsel for the Bush/Cheney Presidential campaigns (including participating in the 2000 Florida recount), he has acted as counsel to the Speaker of the Assembly and Majority Leader of the State Senate and has participated in numerous legislative recounts. During the 2011 State Supreme Court race, Mr. Troupis represented Justice Dave Prosser as lead counsel during the statewide recount. He has published widely and served as a keynote speaker on election law issues, including accountability and voter access. He served, as well, on the Special Joint Legislative Committee on Election Law Review.
Matthew W. O'Neill (County Municipal Clerks' Attorney) Matt O'Neill regularly counsels clients on both sides of the aisle in campaign and election-related matters. Mr. O'Neill was part of the team that successfully obtained reversal of a criminal conviction of a former Republican Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly. In the same election cycle, he successfully represented the Democratic Party in a lawsuit involving proposed "cross checks" that could have removed thousands of qualified voters from the poll lists. In another case, he represented a Native American Tribe challenging a redistricting plan as violating the Voting Rights Act. Over the past three Presidential election cycles, Mr. O'Neill has trained over two thousand lawyers to act as observers in polling places throughout the state. He has testified before the United States Congress, the Wisconsin Senate, and the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board on proposed reforms to federal and state election laws.
A View from the Trenches
Robert Bauer is currently White House Counsel. Formerly, Mr. Bauer was a partner at Perkins Coie in Washington, D.C. where he was the chair of the firm’s political law group. Mr. Bauer was general counsel to Obama for America, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He is the author of several books and articles on election law and ran a popular blog that focuses on campaign finance and other election law issues www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com.
Benjamin Ginsberg is currently a partner at Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C. and represents political parties, campaigns, candidates, and other entities involved in the political process. He is currently representing Senator Norm Coleman and his campaign in the ongoing Minnesota recount. Mr. Ginsberg has served as counsel to both the 2000 and 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns, playing a central role in the 2000 Florida recount. He has also represented the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the Republican Governors Association.
Redistricting Litigation: What Every Judge Should Know
is an associate at Washington D.C. based firm Jenner & Block where she is a member of the Election Law and Redistricting Practices. She has briefed matters before the U.S. Supreme Court involving partisan gerrymandering, voter identification requirements and National Voter Registration Act.
J. Gerald Hebert is Executive Director and Director of Litigation at the Campaign Legal Center. Over the last three decades, he has served as legal counsel for parties and amici curiae in numerous redistricting lawsuits, including several cases decided in the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Hebert is a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center where he taught courses on voting rights, election law, and campaign finance regulation.
Trevor Potter is a member in Caplin & Drysdale’s Washington, D.C. office, where he leads the firm’s Political Activity Law Practice. He is one of the country’s best-known and most experienced campaign and election lawyers, and a former Commissioner and Chairman of the Federal Election Commission. Mr. Potter served as John McCain’s General Counsel for his 2000 and 2008 campaigns, and is founding President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center.
John Hardin Young is counsel to the Washington, DC law firm of Sandler, Reiff & Young. He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading electoral recount and dispute resolution lawyers. Mr. Young is an Adjunct Professor at William & Mary Law, and member of the Advisory Committee to the William & Mary Election Law Program.
Election Law Controversies: The Basics of Election Litigation
Richard L. Hasen is the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D., M.A. and Ph.D. (Political Science) from the University of California at Los Angeles. After law school, Hasen clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then worked as a civil appellate lawyer. From 1994-1997, Hasen taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He joined Loyola's faculty in 1997 as a visiting professor and became a member of the full-time faculty in fall 1998. In 2005, he was named the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law. Hasen is a nationally-recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, is co-author of a leading casebook on election law and co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of more than three dozen articles on election law issues. In 2002, Hasen was named one of the 20 top lawyers in California under age 40 by the Los Angeles (and San Francisco) Daily Journal and one of the top 100 lawyers in California in 2005. Hasen also writes the widely read "Election law blog." His opeds and commentaries have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Slate. His election law book, “The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore,” was published by NYU Press in 2003.
Dr. Aviel D. Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Rubin directs the NSF-funded ACCURATE center for correct, usable, reliable, auditable and transparent elections. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Rubin was a research scientist at AT&T Labs. He is also a co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators, a security consulting firm. Rubin has testified before the U.S. House and Senate on multiple occasions, and he is author of several books including Brave New Ballot (Random House, 2006) Firewalls and Internet Security, second edition (with Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison Wesley, 2003), White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001), and Web Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley & Sons, 1997). He is Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Associate Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy, and an Advisory Board member of Springer's Information Security and Cryptography Book Series. In January, 2004 Baltimore Magazine named Rubin a Baltimorean of the Year for his work in safeguarding the integrity of our election process, and he is also the recipient of the 2004 Electronic Frontiers Foundation Pioneer Award. Rubin has a B.S, ('89), M.S.E ('91), and Ph.D. ('94) from the University of Michigan.
Edward B. Foley, Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law at Moritz, is the Director ofElection Law @ Moritz. One of the nation’s preeminent experts on election law, Professor Foley teaches and writes in all areas of this field, including campaign finance regulation. His current work focuses on the less-developed law of voting administration: provisional voting, registration rules and procedures, HAVA, recounts and judicially disputed elections. He has written a major article on “The Future of *Bush v. Gore*? (PDF 493kb),” (68 Ohio St. L. J. 925) as well as follow-up, “Refining the *Bush v. Gore* Taxonomy (PDF 80kb)” (68 Ohio St. L. J. 1035), both part of symposium sponsored by EL@M and the Ohio State Law Journal. His examination of the future significance of that famous precedent has led him to complete for the Election Law Journal an analysis of the Indiana voter identification case in the Supreme Court. His earlier article, The Analysis and Mitigation of Election Errors: Theory, Practice, Policy (PDF 180kb*)*(18 Stan. Law & Policy Review 350) sets the stage for a long-term study of post-voting disputes. His commentary on election law can be found at Free & Fair.
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