The Supreme Court of Wisconsin rejected the attorney general of Wisconsin Josh Kaul on Sunday evening to prevent Elon Musk and America Pac from executing a gift scheduled for Sunday evening of $ 1 million each to two participants in a town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The order intervened a few minutes before the event – the support of the conservative candidate Brad Schimel – was to begin.
In particular, the court also rejected an offer from Musk lawyers to ask two judges, who campaigned for the candidate for the Supreme Wisconsin Court, Susan Crawford, to challenge herself.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk advises Air Force One with President Donald Trump while leaving for Philadelphia, from Morristown Municipal Airport to Morristown, New Jersey, March 22, 2025.
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The decision reached after a court of appeal rejected Kaul’s emergency request on Saturday to prevent the competition from taking place.
Kaul wrote in his initial file on Friday that he asked for emergency aid to arrest Musk and America Pac “to promote a gift of a million dollars more to the participants of an event scheduled for Sunday, March 30, 2025 and prohibiting respondents from paying payments to Wisconsin voters to vote.”
However, the judge was allocated to the case, the honorable judge of the County Court of the County of Columbia, W. Andrew Voigt, refused to hear the trial before the Green Bay Rally with Musk – which prompted Kaul’s emergency request asking the court of appeal to take measures.
After this emergency request was rejected, Kaul appealed to the Supreme Wisconsin Court on Sunday.
The lawyers of Elon Musk and America Pac then filed requests for the challenge of the judges of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin Rebecca Frank Dallet and Jill J. Karofsky.
They argued that because Dallet and Karofsky campaigned for Crawford, and Crawford criticized Musk, “to avoid any potential perception of biases and manifestations of possible prejudices, judges Dallet and Karofsky should refuse to participate in this issue.”
Lawyers also designed Sunday evening gifts planned as “spokespersons” for PAC spokespersons.
In the Initial Lawsuit, Shared by Kaul’s Office, Kaul Argued That “Musk’s Announcement of His Intention to Pay $ 1 million to Two Wisconsin Electors who awaits His Event on Sunday Night, specificly conditioned on their Having vote in the upcoming April 3, 2025, Election, is a blantant attempt to violate “state law, which“ forbids anyone from offering or promising to give anything of value to order to encourage the voter to go to the polls, to vote or to refrain from voting, or to vote for a particular person.
The prosecution asked a prohibition order “prohibiting defendants from any other promotion of gifts to a million dollars to the participants of the planned defendants planned to make payments to Wisconsin voters to vote” and injunction to “restrict the actions of the State by the defenders taken in a provided”.
Until now, two political groups aligned with Musk – America PAC and the construction of the future of America – have paid nearly $ 20 million to support Schimel for the open seat.
The richest man in the world has used cash gifts in the past, including a controversial competition of a million dollars offered to voters of swing states during the electoral cycle of last year as part of an effort to stimulate the chances of President Donald Trump to win in these states.
The election of the Supreme Wisconsin Court on Tuesday has generally become the center of a storm of political fire and has become the race for the Supreme Court of the most expensive state in American history, according to the Brennan Center for Justice of the University of New York.
