President Trump’s legal team petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to consider its challenge from a previous Wisconsin Supreme Court decision to reject its allegations of irregularities in the use of absent ballots during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Trump’s campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani filed for a Certiorari Warrant weeks after the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 4-3 to reject a Trump campaign process that sought to overturn the state’s election results. The president’s legal team asked the Supreme Court for a quick review of the matter before Congress meets to certify the results of the January 6 Electoral College vote.
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“Unfortunately, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in its 4-3 decision, refused to address the merits of our complaint. This ‘Cert Petition’ asks them to address our complaints, which, if allowed, would change the outcome of the complaint. election in Wisconsin, “Trump’s campaign attorney Jim Troupis said in a statement. “Three members of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice, agreed with many of the president’s claims in written dissidents of the December 14 order of that court.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned the Trump campaign process on December 14, just hours before President-elect Joe Biden received the state’s 10 electoral votes. Trump’s lawyers sought to invalidate more than 221,000 ballots in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both Democratic strongholds. Biden won in Wisconsin by about 20,600 votes.
The court ruled that three of the four actions included in the Trump case were filed too late in the election process to be considered. A fourth claim was considered without merit.
The Trump campaign said the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision effectively “allowed more than 50,000 illegal absentee ballots, in violation of Article II of the U.S. Constitution and Wisconsin law.”
The petition notes several cases in which the Trump campaign alleges irregularities, including more than 28,000 counted votes from people “who did not provide identification for abusing the state’s ‘indefinitely confined status'” and about 6,000 absentee votes that were counted despite the supposed lack of information required on their envelopes.
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Trump’s legal team filed a separate petition with the Supreme Court regarding allegations of postal ballot fraud in Pennsylvania on December 20. The Supreme Court has not yet indicated whether it will hear this challenge expeditiously, as requested by the campaign.
The president continued to contest the election results in several states, even as Biden’s team moves forward with transition procedures. Biden is scheduled to open on January 20.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.