Green Bay, wis. (AP) – Elon Musk gave $ 1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them as speakers to his political group before the election of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, which the technological billionaire cast as critical of President Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization.”
“This is a super big deal,” he told about 2000 people a crowd in Green Bay on Sunday night, taking the stage in a yellow cheese hat. “I’m not calling him. I’m in person here.”
Musk and the groups he supports have spent more than $ 20 million to help conservative beloved Brad Shimel in the Tuesday race, which will determine the ideological staff of court, which is likely to resolve key issues in a multi -year battlefield. Musk is increasingly becoming the center of the competition, with the liberal beloved Susan Crawford and its allies protesting against Musk and what they say is the influence he wants to have on the court.
“I think this will be important for the future of civilization,” he said. “That’s important.”
He noted that the State Supreme Court could take over the redistribution of congress regions, which could ultimately influence which party controls the US house.
“And if the Wisconsin Supreme Court) is able to rearrange the areas, they will anger the area and deprive Wisconsin of two places from the Republican side,” Musk said. “Then they will try to stop all the government reforms we are done by you, the American people.”
The Supreme Court of the unanimous state of Sunday declined to listen to the last -minute experience of the State Prosecutor General to stop Musk to hand over the checks to two voters, a decision that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally.
Two incorrect courts have already rejected the legal challenge of Democrat Josh Kaul, who claims that Musk’s proposal is violating state law. “Wisconsin’s law prohibits the supply of something valuable to make everyone vote,” Caul argues in his submission. “And yet, Elon Musk did just that.”
But the Supreme Court of the State, which is currently controlled 4-3 of the liberal judges, refused to take the case as an initial action. The court did not give any justification for its decision.
Kaul had no immediate comment on the court’s order.
Musk’s lawyers argued in bringing to court that Musk is exercising his free speech rights and any attempt to restrict, which will violate both Wisconsin and US constitutions.
Payments are “intended to generate the movement of local people as opposed to activists’ judges, not to explicitly overlap or against any candidate,” say Musk’s lawyers in court treaties.
The Musk Political Action Committee uses almost identical tactics before the presidential election last year, offering to pay $ 1 million a day to Wisconsin voters and six other countries on the battlefield that signed a petition to support the first and second amendments. A Pennsylvania judge said prosecutors had failed to show that the efforts were an illegal lottery and allowed him to continue on an elected day.
Currently, the liberals have a 4-3 majority of the court. All four liberal judges approved a judge of Dane Susan Crawford County, the candidate supported by the Democrats.
Musk’s attorneys, about four hours before the rally began, demanded that two liberal judges who were campaigning for Crawford – Jill Carofski and Rebecca Dalet – retired from the case. His lawyers argued their work on Crawford creates the “ghost of inappropriate bias”. If they were bought, it would leave the court with a 3-2 conservative majority.
Both judges rejected the request and said they would say their reasons why on a later date.
One of the conservative judges of the court approved Shimel, who was wearing a “make America great again” as he was running a campaign on Sunday.
Shimel said in a national television interview that he did not control “none of the expenses of any external group, whether it is Elon Musk or someone else” and that all Trump asked if he would “reject the activists’ judges” and follow the law.
“That’s exactly what I committed to anyone, whether it is President Trump, Elon Musk or any donors and donors or supporters or voters in Wisconsin. This is my commitment,” Shimmel told Fox News Sunday.
The competition has destroyed the national records of the costs of the court election with over $ 81 million costs.
It comes as the highest court of Wisconsin is expected to rule on abortion rights, congress redistribution, power and voting rules that could affect the average of 2026 and the 2028 presidential election in the country.
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The writer of the Associated Press Gary Fields in Washington has contributed to this report.