A few hours after the State Supreme Court rejected the effort of the Wisconsin Attorney General, Josh Kaul, to prevent Elon Musk from delivering $ 1 million checks on Sunday night, the billionaire took the stage in a town hall in Green Bay and gave two checks of $ 1 million to the attendees in his last effort to support the conservative candidate Brad Schime.
Using the crowd to support Schimel, Musk cast on Tuesday as “a vote for which the party controls the House of Representatives” and implied that “the future of civilization” is at stake.
One of the recipients of a large and striking check, Nicholas Jacobs, is the president of the Republicans of Wisconsin College.
The Order of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin occurred a few minutes before the event began.
In particular, the court also rejected an offer from Musk’s lawyers to ask two judges, who had campaigned for the candidate of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Susan Crawford, to be challenged.
The billionaire businessman Elon Musk prepares to give $ 1,000,000 to a Wisconsin voter during a City Council meeting that was organizing in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on March 30, 2025.
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The ruling occurred after an appeals court on Saturday denied Kaul’s emergency motion to prevent the raffle from occurring.
Kaul wrote in his initial presentation on Friday that he was asking for emergency relief to stop Musk and America PAC “to further promote a million dollars to attend the attendees of an event planned on Sunday, March 30, 2025, and prohibit respondents from making payments to Wisconsin voters to vote.”
However, the judge assigned to the case, the honorable judge of the Circuit Court of Columbia County, W. Andrew Voigt, refused to listen to the lawsuit before the Green Bay rally on Sunday with Musk, which caused Kaul’s emergency motion asking for an appeals court that takes measures.
After this emergency motion was rejected, Kaul appealed to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin to intervene on Sunday.
Elon Musk and America Pac’s lawyers presented motions to challenge the judges of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin Rebecca Frank Dallet and Jill J. Karofsky.
They argued that because Dallet and Karofsky made a campaign for Crawford, and Crawford has been critical of Musk, “to avoid possible bias perceptions and demonstrations of possible biases, Dallet and Karofsky judges should refuse to participate in consideration of this matter.”
The lawyers also framed the planned gifts on Sunday night as “spokesperson agreements” for PAC spokesmen.
In the initial demand, shared by Kaul’s office, Kaul argued that “Musk’s announcement of his intention to pay $ 1 million to two Wisconsin voters who attend their event on Sunday night, specifically conditioned to their vote in the next April 325, Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, is a shameless attempt to violate” the state law ” They do not promise any of the people who offer any of the elections of the choice of voters.
The demand requested a restriction order “that prohibits the accused of any additional promotion of the gifts of one million dollars to the attendees to Sunday, March 30, 2025”, as well as a temporary restriction order “that prohibits the accused of making payments to the Wisconsin voters” and the relief of the states of the reference of the states of the “restriction and prohibits all the actions for the defendants that advance in the state voting plan.
In addition to presenting the checks on Sunday night, Musk said that his PAC is launching a “block captain” program before the elections on Tuesday, where participants will earn $ 20 for each image that they publish from someone with a Schimel sign and a thumb out of their home.
Until now, two political groups aligned with Musk, America PAC and the construction of the future of the United States, have poured almost $ 20 million in the support of Schimel for the open seat.
The richest man in the world has used cash raffles in the past, including a controversial raffle of $ 1 million offered to voters in the swing states during last year’s electoral cycle as part of an effort to boost the possibilities of winning President Donald Trump in those states.
The election of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, on Tuesday, has generally become the center of a political storm and has become the most expensive state Supreme Court career in the history of the United States, according to the Brennan Justice Center at the University of New York.
