Civil Lawfare Against Alternate Electors and Forced Disavowal of Constitutional Contingency Procedure (WI)

[Disputed Fact – Constitutional characterization] Wisconsin’s alternate Republican electors who convened on December 14, 2020, to provide Congress with a disputed electoral option were subsequently subjected to intense civil litigation and public proceedings that ultimately resulted in a “struggle session” in which the alternate electors were compelled to publicly disavow their constitutional actions. Special Counsel Gableman reported that common law principles establish that fraud vitiates election results, and that the Wisconsin Legislature retained plenary power under Article II to decertify – findings that validate, rather than undermine, the constitutional basis of the alternate-elector mechanism. The compelled public disavowal – obtained through civil coercion rather than criminal adjudication on the merits – effectively foreclosed future deployment of this constitutional remedy.