Established Fact The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) issued 3,137 FIDO (Fast Identity Online) hardware security keys for WisVote database access while admitting it cannot account for how many keys it has actually issued. At least one county received 15 keys after requesting only 2, and was told to hold unused keys “just in case.” Of […]
Established Fact [Established Fact – As to acts] The OSC documented that its investigative staff were subjected to frivolous ethics complaints, voluminous open-records requests designed to strain OSC resources, private investigators surveilling OSC staff’s personal lives, and alleged hacks of OSC devices. The use of private investigators against legislative investigators conducting a constitutionally authorized election
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Established Fact The Wisconsin Attorney General indicted individuals involved in the alternate elector strategy, publicly announcing an intent to imprison former Dane County Circuit Judge James Troupis – who served as legal counsel advising the Trump campaign on election challenges – “for life” for his role as an attorney. This public statement, directed at a
Established Fact Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed suit in Dane County Circuit Court seeking a declaration that the Wisconsin Legislature’s Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) lacked authority to conduct its election investigation. The AG also intervened in separate litigation on behalf of private individuals resisting legislative subpoenas, deploying state legal resources to defend
Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – Resource drain on investigative function was the practical effect] The Wisconsin Legislature’s Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) under Special Counsel Michael Gableman faced three separate, simultaneous lawsuits filed against it in Dane County Circuit Court – a Democratic-leaning jurisdiction. These actions forced the OSC to expend significant investigative resources
Established Fact [Established Fact – Three suits filed] The Wisconsin Legislature’s Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) under Special Counsel Michael Gableman faced three separate, simultaneous lawsuits filed against it in Dane County Circuit Court – a Democratic-leaning jurisdiction. These actions forced the OSC to expend significant investigative resources in defensive litigation rather than investigation.
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Disputed Fact Activist legal organizations Law Forward and Georgetown University’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) weaponized civil litigation against Wisconsin’s alternate electors and their attorneys, eventually forcing settlements that required defendants to publicly acknowledge Joe Biden’s victory and legally agree not to serve as presidential electors for Donald Trump in any future election.
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Established Fact Personnel in the Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), who were formally authorized by the Wisconsin Legislature to investigate the 2020 election, were systematically targeted via ethics complaints, private investigators hired to probe their personal lives, coordinated media attacks, and reputational-destruction campaigns. These tactics were designed to delegitimize the investigation, exhaust investigative
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Established Fact Law Forward and Georgetown University’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) pursued civil litigation against Wisconsin’s ten alternate electors and the two Trump campaign attorneys who organized the elector strategy — James Troupis and Kenneth Chesebro — in Penebaker et al. v. Hitt et al., No. 22CV1178 (Dane Cty. Cir. Ct.), filed
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Established Fact Following the voluntary withdrawal of Wisconsin Voters Alliance v. Pence — a lawsuit challenging the validity of 2020 election procedures in five states, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — Judge James E. Boasberg issued a show-cause order on January 7, 2021, the same day plaintiffs’ counsel filed
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