WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT: OPINION: Daniel Kelly is a threat to democracy in Wisconsin
Kelly had been hired by the Republican Party as special counsel and, according to a bombshell report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “was at the center of the discussion in December 2020 with top Wisconsin Republicans over their highly controversial plan to covertly convene a group of Republicans inside the state Capitol in the weeks following Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden to sign paperwork falsely claiming to be electors.” That report quotes a deposition to the Jan. 6 Committee from former Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt, one of the state’s 10 fake electors, where he said he had “extensive conversations” with Kelly about the fake electors plot.
Kelly clearly played a key role in the Republican plot to overturn an American election. Putting Daniel Kelly back on the bench would be a genuine threat to democracy in the state — and the nation.
A Kelly victory in this coming race in April would bring immediate concerns over how the court would rule on potential election challenges in 2024, where Donald Trump remains the frontrunner to win the Republican nomination, and election denial remains a core plank of his platform.
But it goes beyond that. So many statewide races in Wisconsin are decided by decimal points. Of the last six presidential elections, four were decided by less than 1%. We just saw the closest election for U.S. Senate in more than a century. Races for governor, attorney general and so on are often extremely close.
The next justice elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court will serve for 10 years. They will be on the court through 2033. That term will include three presidential elections, two gubernatorial elections and a host of other statewide races. In this 50-50 swing state, it’s likely that many of those elections will be close. Electing Daniel Kelly to the Wisconsin Supreme Court could put the results of any of those elections at risk of being overturned.
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