Wisconsin’s attorney general submitted an emergency petition on May 30 to the state Supreme Court to prevent White House adviser and tech billionaire Elon Musk from making $1 million payments to two random Wisconsinites who signed an online petition against “activist judges.”
Two lower state courts have already rejected challenges submitted by the attorney general, Josh Kaul, who had argued that Musk’s offer violates Wisconsin law that bars giving money or “anything of value” in exchange for voting.
“The Wisconsin Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that elections in Wisconsin are safe, secure, free and fair,” Kaul said in a statement last week. “Based on our understanding of applicable Wisconsin law, we have taken legal action to seek a court order to stop this from happening.”…