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Susan Crawford has defeated Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election giving a defining blow to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Elon Musk donated $20 million dollars to this race and bribed people to vote for Schimel. Wisconsin rejected both of them.

This means that the Wisconsin Supreme Court will have a 4-3 Dem majority which is critical for abortion rights, redistricting measures, etc.

Decision Desk HQ with the Projection

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Ahead of Wisconsin Supreme Court election, Elon Musk PAC offers cash for pledge

Less than two weeks out from Wisconsin's high stakes Supreme Court election, Elon Musk's political action committee is offering voters $100

This was wildly illegal last time Musk did it, but he wasn't arrested and laws no longer apply to republicans, so here we are.

I beg of you, Wisconsin. Save your bodily autonomy, non-gerrymandered maps, and stand up against vote buying by voting for Susan Crawford in the April 1st election.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Will Elon Musk Be Charged With Election Bribery?

Following a criminal referral, a Republican prosecutor in Wisconsin must now decide whether to charge Musk for those $1 million checks to vo

Jay Kuo at The Status Kuo:

On July 9, the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1, across party lines, to refer two complaints against Elon Musk to Brown County District Attorney David Lasee. The bipartisan commission found probable cause that Musk violated the state’s election bribery statute when he offered $1 million to people who voted in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court race “in order to induce them to vote in that election.” Lasee now has 40 days to report back to the commission on what, if anything, he intends to do. The matter now rests with Lasee, a local Republican prosecutor. And like much of the news in this upside-down era, what looks straightforward on its face gets a bit more complicated the closer you look.

Buying voters

Musk was deeply involved in Wisconsin’s 2025 Supreme Court race, which became something of a referendum on outside oligarch money in state and local politics. He personally donated at least $3 million to the campaign of Republican-backed candidate Brad Schimel, while America PAC and a second Musk-funded group, Rebuilding America’s Future, spent roughly $19 million more on Schimel’s behalf. Combined spending across the race topped $100 million, making it the most expensive judicial election in American history. The spending built on a model Musk had already used in the 2024 presidential race. In that cycle, Musk’s America PAC raffled off daily $1 million payments to registered swing-state voters who signed a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. In Wisconsin’s judicial race, his PAC adapted the approach: $100 for signing a petition opposing “activist judges,” another $100 for referring a signer, and $20 for door-knocking on the campaign’s behalf. The million-dollar checks came at the end as over-the-top spectacle. Musk appeared at a town hall in Green Bay on March 30, 2025, and handed two novelty checks for $1 million each to voters his PAC had selected as spokespeople for the cause. A third Wisconsin voter had received another $1 million check days earlier. The Wisconsin Elections Commission took issue with the offer itself, its probable cause finding centering on a social media post offering the money specifically to people who voted in the race. Musk’s millions didn’t carry the day. Schimel lost to Democratic-backed candidate Susan Crawford by 10 percentage points. Musk posted afterward that “the long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary.” A month later, Musk said he would scale back his political spending.

The criminal referral

The commission’s finding rests on Wisconsin’s bribery statute, which bars anyone from offering “anything of value” to an elector “in order to induce” that person to vote. In a motion reviewed by the Associated Press, the commission applied that language directly to Musk’s own words. His social media post offered $1 million to people who voted in the Supreme Court race, worded “to induce them to vote in that election.” (Musk’s fans consider him fairly smart, but this was pretty boneheaded, and his lawyers probably winced.) The commission’s framing narrows the case considerably. Its finding centers on the voting inducement itself, not on the earlier $100 petition payments or the $20 door-knocking incentive, both of which involved a different kind of exchange. In total, three Wisconsin voters ultimately received $1 million checks from Musk, two in person at the Green Bay rally.

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Lasee what he’ll do…

Doing the math, 40 days from July 9 puts us in mid-August. By then, Lasee will have reported what action, if any, he plans to take, whether he announces his decision publicly or not. The question before him is not especially complicated in any legal sense. He already answered a version of it in his letter to the nonprofit voting groups and their $1,000 raffle. Musk’s checks were each a thousand times larger, handed to specific named voters, and conditioned on the same act Lasee flagged in 2024, namely, casting a ballot. A million dollars buys a lot of pizza and rides to the polls. If Lasee refuses to charge Musk, he will invite the conclusion that the statute exists only for people who can’t afford to violate it. If he does charge Musk, he will show his constituents that Wisconsin’s election laws still mean something, even when the person testing them is the richest man in the world.

Could Elon Musk be facing bribery charges in Wisconsin?

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Get out and vote April 1st 2025, Wisconsin.

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Farmers in Wisconsin are apparently the dumbest motherfuckers on earth because even after they lost their undocumented workers, their farmer's aid and will be losing all of their chickens to the bird flu thanks to their vote for Trump I'm STILL seeing Brad Schimel signs on every farm we drove past today.

There are videos of these dumbasses going "I dIdN't KnOw He WaS gOiNg To Do ThOsE tHiNgS!" even though he did those things last time, and even though he said that he was going to do those things, but they're voting to give Trump more power to take even more of their rights away.

Every last one of these people are so fucking STUPID!

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Elon Musk Is Openly Trying to Buy Votes in Crucial Supreme Court Race

Elon Musk is once again interfering in a pivotal election.

Elon Musk is paying Wisconsin residents $100 each to sign a petition denouncing “activist” judges, collecting troves of voter data in the final days before a crucial state Supreme Court election.

Donald Trump and the billionaire bureaucrat leading the Department of Government Efficiency have spent the last week railing against one federal judge who dared to question the administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, who were transported to a prison in El Salvador without due process and in defiance of a federal court order.

Now Musk is attempting to artificially shift public opinion by circulating a petition against “activist” judges and offering compensation in return.

“By signing below, I’m rejecting the actions of activist judges who impose their own views and demanding a judiciary that respects its role—interpreting, not legislating,” the petition said, according to Axios.

Musk’s petition comes little over a week before Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, in which Musk has already put a whopping $20 million behind conservative candidate Brad Schimel.

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is set to weigh questions on hot-button issues, including the use of voter drop boxes in elections, abortion access, and redrawing congressional maps. A Republican majority on the court could influence the outcome in any of these cases, which would have national repercussions.

While Musk won’t know how respondents to the petition answer, after they receive their $100 credit, Musk will walk away with their information and be able to contact them again in the future. Like, in the days before the election on April 1.

“No District Court Judge, or any Judge, can assume the duties of the President of the United States. Only Crime and Chaos would result. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday.

“Unlawful Nationwide Injunctions by Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country! These people are Lunatics, who do not care, even a little bit, about the repercussions from their very dangerous and incorrect Decisions and Rulings,” he wrote in another post Thursday. He urged judges to stop placing injunctions on his potentially unlawful actions.

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A reminder that there's an election for Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday. In person early voting continues through Sunday. You can also vote on Tuesday at your regular Election Day polling place.

There will be no party labels on the ballot, but Susan Crawford is backed by Democrats while Brad Schimel is being bankrolled by Elon Musk.

Apartheid Elon is trying to bribe Wisconsin voters by giving away millions of dollars. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has filed suit to stop him.

Kaul sues to stop Musk, America PAC from giving $1M payments to voters

If you are outside Wisconsin, contact friends there to remind them to vote. They won't get money by voting for Susan Crawford but they will get abortion rights and ungerrymandered maps. A vote for Crawford is also a way to show disapproval for MAGA-DOGE attempts to abolish Social Security and wreck the public health system in the US.