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kelly spew bile ~ concession
hooray tho most $ ever 3x senate, state rep vow to impeach
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...The JCN and The 85 Fund have paid both of Leo’s for-profit groups, CRC Advisors and BH Group, tens of millions of dollars since 2016, according to the New York Times. Most of the money going through all of these groups trickled down from a dark money group called the Wellspring Committee, according to the New York Times, which was founded and primarily funded by the Koch Brothers until it dissolved in 2019.
Leo-affiliated dark money found its way into state supreme court races through the Republican State Leadership Committee, a super PAC that focuses its spending on right-wing candidates in state elections. An arm of the RSLC called the Judicial Fairness Initiative focuses on state judicial elections and, according to Grid’s investigation, spent more than $10 million on state judicial elections between 2014 and 2018. Over the past several election cycles, JCN has been a top donor to the RSLC, giving the group nearly $5.5 million since 2016.
The RSLC has played a pivotal fundraising role in some of the most contentious state supreme court races of the past several years. In the 2021 Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, for example, the groupspent$1.2 million in last-minute ads to support Kevin Brobson, the conservative candidate who won the election. Last fall, the RSLC spent $2 million in support of three right-wing justices running for reelection to theOhio Supreme Court. Most recently, the group spent at least $200,000 to support Dan Kelly,the conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate who lost in April in what was the most expensive state judicial election in U.S. history.
In 2020, Leo founded a new organization called Marble Freedom Trust, which, according to its tax filings, was created to “maintain and expand human freedom consistent with the values and ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutionof the United States.”
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on Wisconsin on Tuesday, April 4, voters will elect either a far-right MAGA Republican or a liberal to a seat on the state's supreme court. Republican Dan Kelly is up against liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz, who has been railing against Kelly relentlessly over his severe anti-abortion views as well as for his sympathy for election denialists.
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Kelly has given Protasiewicz plenty of material to work with. On March 21, he spoke at an event headlined by the Rev. Matthew Trewhella — a Christian fundamentalist who has described killing abortion providers as "justifiable homicide." Trewhella, a supporter of the militia movement, has also called for evangelicals to receive paramilitary training and wage a holy war against adversaries.}:
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The seat on the Milwaukee Supreme Court that Kelly and Protasiewicz are competing for is up for grabs because of former Chief Justice Pat Roggensack's retirement. In an op-ed published by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on March 28, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Ellen Brostrom — who is Roggensack's daughter — endorses Protasiewicz and emphasizes that Kelly is "unfit" for the position.}:
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"As judges, we take an oath to support the constitutions of the United States and the State of Wisconsin," Brostrom argues. "Instead of supporting our constitutional rights, however, Kelly has worked to undermine the constitution and our democracy. He has never served as a front-line judge, and instead, most recently served as a legal advisor to the Republican Party of Wisconsin as it implemented the fake elector scheme — part of a multifaceted conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election."
The judge continues, "In the United States, we proudly elect our leaders. Our leaders do not install themselves. Our entire democracy — indeed, the very idea of America — is built on this bedrock constitutional right. Whatever our flaws and shortcomings, America, and Wisconsin specifically, has been a 'city on a hill' for the peaceful transition of power."
Wisconsin is among the five states that former President Donald Trump won in 2016 but lost in 2020. And Brostrom slams Kelly for being sympathetic to the MAGA Republicans who tried to overturn the democratic election results in a state that now-President Joe Biden won fairly.
"Instead of peaceful transition, however, since the last presidential election, the country has been subject to a massive fraud designed to convince fellow citizens that the election was stolen," Brostrom explains. "It seems the losing side — led by President Trump, Fox News, and his allies — believes the results should be overturned by any means necessary. To that end, they have intentionally lied to the American people and conspired to keep Trump illegally in power."
READ MORE:WI Supreme Court hopeful spoke at event with pastor who says killing abortion doctors is 'justifiable homicide’
Brostrom continues, "Kelly assisted in this scheme, and that makes him unfit to serve on our state's highest court…. I believe we all have a patriotic and moral obligation to vote against candidates who have helped this conspiracy along, even if we are not fully comfortable with their opponent or would not vote for them otherwise. Kelly helped this conspiracy along, working to overturn the 2020 presidential election. That is not 'conservative,' and it is not American. Kelly is unfit to serve on our highest court."
READ MORE:Judge who aided Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election moves forward after Wisconsin Supreme Court primary
Read Judge Ellen Brostrom's full op-ed at this link.
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Dear MoveOn member,
I'm Tony Evers, the governor of Wisconsin. I've never emailed you before, but I'm emailing you today because I need to talk to you about an incredibly urgent matter: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 4 that will decide whether the far right controls the court or not.
My state is one of the most critical battleground states in the country, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court will rule on hugely consequential election cases that could end up deciding the 2024 presidential election.
That's why Republican billionaires are flooding Wisconsin with cash—all to elect their right-wing candidate, a radical extremist who collaborated with Trump's plot to undermine fair elections in Wisconsin.1
Even the man who financed the January 6 insurrection is pouring money into our state.2
That's why I'm partnering with MoveOn to stop the far right and to win this election. But we need your help.
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It's not just democracy and voting rights that are on the line in this election.
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1. "Trump ally with ties to 'fake elector' scheme advances in Wisconsin Supreme Court race,"NBC News, February 21, 2023
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Trump ally with ties to 'fake elector' scheme advances in Wisconsin Supreme Court race
Daniel Kelly, a conservative with connections to a plan to reverse the 2020 election results, will face liberal Janet Protasiewicz in an April 4 election to determine control of the court.
Feb. 21, 2023,
By Adam Edelman
A Donald Trump ally who advised Republicans on legal efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential race has advanced to the Wisconsin Supreme Court general election, putting him one step closer to a seat on the powerful bench.
Daniel Kelly is a former state Supreme Court justice with connections to a plan hatched by the former president's allies to reverse the 2020 election results in Wisconsin through the use of “fake electors.” He was one of two candidates to advance in Tuesday’s Supreme Court primary, according to projections by The Associated Press.
The other to move forward was liberal candidate Janet Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee County circuit judge who was endorsed by the Democratic abortion rights group Emily’s List.
Protasiewicz and Kelly will face off in an April 4 general election that will determine political control of the court — and, with it, the future of many pivotal issues the court is likely to decide in the coming years, including abortion rights, elections and gerrymandering. The winner is elected to a 10-year term.
Although the court and its members are technically nonpartisan, conservatives hold a 4-3 majority. But with conservative Justice Patience Roggensack retiring, that majority hangs in the balance.
There has not been a liberal majority on the court in 15 years, and Democrats see the election as a prime opportunity to shift the balance.
Kelly was one of two conservative candidates in the primary election; the other, Jennifer Dorow, is a Waukesha County circuit judge best known in the state for having presiding over the criminal trial of Darrell Brooks, who was convicted last year of killing six people at a Waukesha Christmas parade in 2021 when he crashed his SUV into the crowd.
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Protasiewicz won about 46% of the vote Tuesday, a commanding victory based on Democratic turnout, particularly in Milwaukee and Dane counties, that was especially high for an off-year, down-ballot, winter primary election.
The two liberal candidates in the race together won 54% of the vote, compared to about 46% for the two conservative candidates combined.
Kelly only narrowly bested Dorow for a second-place finish, with the two basically splitting the support of voters who turned out for a conservative candidate. Kelly outperformed Dorow in rural counties, while Dorow outdid Kelly in the heavily Republican suburban counties surrounding Milwaukee.
Kelly is a former state Supreme Court justice who lost his seat in a 2020 election to liberal Jill Karofsky. He was appointed to the seat in 2016 by former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican. He has remained tied to Trump allies through a plan that was intended to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state with the use of “fake electors.”
In a deposition to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, former Wisconsin GOP chairman Andrew Hitt said he and Kelly had “pretty extensive conversations” about the plan, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported last week that the Republican Party at the state and national levels had paid Kelly $120,000 to advise it on “election integrity” issues.
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A spokesperson for Kelly's campaign did not respond to questions about his involvement in those efforts. Kelly spokesperson Jim Dick told the Journal Sentinel that Kelly "believes Joe Biden is the duly elected president of the United States." Dick also suggested to the newspaper that Kelly's beliefs about the election were not necessarily aligned with what his clients believed, saying, "It is a maxim in the legal profession that the views of clients are not attributable to their attorneys."
Kelly based much of his campaign on heavy criticism of Protasiewicz for having openly suggested how she would rule on pivotal cases likely to come before the court involving hot-button issues with national ramifications, like abortion rights, elections and gerrymandering.
Protasiewicz, one of two liberal candidates in the race (the other was Everett Mitchell, a Dane County circuit judge), focused her campaign heavily on her support for abortion rights. Her television advertisements, for example, emphasized that support: One featured her talking directly to the camera, saying, “I believe in a woman’s freedom to make her own decision on abortion,” while a second featured several women touting that support and slamming “extremists” on the other side of the argument.
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Attorney Daniel Kelly in Madison, Wis., on July 22, 2016.John Hart / AP file]
The issue has taken center stage in the race. After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, an 1849 state law banning abortion in almost all cases snapped back into effect.
Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul, both Democrats, have said they will not enforce the law, and Kaul has filed a lawsuit alleging that it is unenforceable. The suit is expected to eventually make its way before the state Supreme Court, most likely giving the court the power to decide on abortion rights in Wisconsin.
Kelly, who has refrained from saying how he would rule in such a case, was endorsed by three groups that oppose abortion rights.
The court is also very likely to hear various challenges to existing election laws, as well as cases that might relate to recounts, absentee ballots and other facets of election administration that could have material impacts on the outcomes of close elections in the perpetual battleground — including the 2024 presidential election.
For example, in a 4-3 decision last year, the state Supreme Court deemed all ballot drop boxes outside election clerks’ offices illegal — a setback for Democrats, who had advocated to preserve one of the more lenient rules about the boxes that arose during the coronavirus pandemic. Two years earlier, the court, in another 4-3 vote, narrowly upheld the 2020 election results in the state. Court watchers predict similar cases in the future.
Other issues that could make it before the court in the coming years include challenges to Act 10, a law enacted by then-Republican Gov. Scott Walkerthat eliminated collective bargaining for most public workers. It could also hear cases about redrawn legislative maps (the current map, which experts have said is one of the most gerrymandered in the country, was approved by the current state Supreme Court last year). As is the case in many states, in Wisconsin, if the governor and the Legislature cannot agree on legislative maps, the issue falls to the state Supreme Court.
The general election is on pace to be the most expensive Supreme Court race in Wisconsin history. Candidates and outside groups have already spent more than $9.2 million, an amount that, through the general election, will clearly exceed the record $10 million spent in 2020.
2. "PAC linked to megadonor Dick Uihlein says it's prepared to spend millions backing Kelly for state Supreme Court," WISPolitics, November 18, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/170738?t=6&akid=347354%2E20164584%2E_YYjVx
- "Work for anti-abortion group issue in Wisconsin court race," AP News, February 23, 2023
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Leonard Leo-Tied Republican State Leadership Committee Aids Kelly
Part 7 of a New Guide to the Right-Wing Groups Targeting the Wisconsin Supreme Court. By Lisa Graves and Evan Vorpahl. An arm of the Republican State Leadership Committee, dubbed the "Judicial Fairness Initiative" (RSLC-JFI), is spending at least nearly a quarter million dollars backing Dan Kelly, a graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law when it was not fully accredited.
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Oct 23, 2023In April, Kelly, Leo's chosen candidate, ran to maintain a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. It was the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history, with both sides spending at least ...
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Supreme Court of Wisconsin. Submitted on briefs October 6, 1982. Decided November 2, 1982. For the Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility the cause was submitted on the briefs of Charles G. Norseng, Chippewa Falls. For the respondent there was a brief by Paul Leo Kelly, Eau Claire. PER CURIAM.
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Leonard Leo: The man behind the right's Supreme Court majority
Oct 13, 2023Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is photographed at a hearing on the nomination of Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe on Aug. 29, 2023, in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis. (Drake White-Bergey / Wisconsin Watch) ... Kelly's loss was Leo's loss. But it was also, paradoxically, a win ...
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Apr 3, 2025According to a campaign finance filing with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, Leonard Leo donated $20,000 to conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Dan Kelly on Feb. 16 — the maximum allowed under state law. Leo, a prominent conservative lawyer, is the co-chairman of The Federalist Society, which advocates checking federal power ...
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Clerk of Supreme Court REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals. Affirmed. ¶1 DANIEL KELLY, J. The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (the "Department") imposed a tax on the petitioners pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 77.52(2)(a)11. (2007-08) for the "processing" of river sediments into waste sludge, reusable sand, and water.
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In his race to return to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, former Justice Daniel Kelly has struggled to keep up with the fundraising juggernaut of the campaign of his opponent, Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz. ... John Schlifske, CEO of Northwestern Mutual, and his wife Kim, each gave Kelly the maximum too, as did Leonard A. Leo, co ...
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After Millions In Dark Money Support, Dan Kelly Won't Recuse Himself ...
Matt Cohen. Daniel Kelly voted in 2017 against a rule that would force judges off cases involving those who spent money to get them elected. Right-wing special interest and dark money groups are spending millions of dollars to get conservative Justice Daniel Kelly elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in an effort that's contributing to what has become the most expensive judicial race in U ...
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More Groups Focused on Banning Abortion Access Are Hitting Wisconsin
Groups trying to make abortion illegal are backing Dan Kelly for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, including a Super PAC that calls itself "Women Speak Out" (WSO) ... a Democratic governor and Attorney General twice, residents here cannot repeal the regressive 1849 abortion ban, which Leo's court-packing put in play, because the state ...
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Sketchy Leonard Leo had his dirty fingers deep in SCOW elections
Oct 24, 2023ProPublica reports:The high court, determining the prosecutors had overreached, ordered the investigation's documents destroyed. But not before the Guardian got its hands on a copy. And buried in the 1,500 pages was a reference to a key figure in propelling both (David) Prosser and (Michael) Gableman to victory: the co-chair of the right-leaning legal group the Federalist Society,