In an effort the stem the tide of global warming, in August of 2015, with the support of Our Children’s Trust, a non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate, filed suit charging the U. S. government, by […]
Republican Donor files lawsuit against ballot boxes
A lawsuit from a top Republican donor argues that absentee dropboxes, like those scattered across the City of Madison, are illegal. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, plaintiffs in the case argue that absentee ballot drop boxes are illegal because they are not specifically included as an option by state law. The Wisconsin State […]
Lawyer Joe Creitz on Wisconsin Supreme Court 4-3 rejection of Trumps e...
On December 14th, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court issued a 4-3 decision that rejected a bid by the Trump campaign to throw out over 200,000 absentee ballots. But how close was the court to invalidating 200,000 votes? Because the conservative justices haven’t said or written as much about what remedy they would approve so much […]
Trump Campaign Lawsuits Fall Flat
In 2000, the U.S. Presidential election was decided by one vote among only nine voters. In a notorious 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount, effectively handing Republican George W. Bush the Presidency over Democrat Al Gore. Twenty years later, President Trump’s campaign has filed multiple lawsuits challenging the results of the […]
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Extension of Mail-In Absentee Ballot Due Dat...
As of 7:30 this morning, state election officials report that more than 1,771,000 Wisconsinites have already cast their ballots in next week’s election. About eighty percent of those ballots were cast through the mail, while about twenty percent were cast through in-person early voting. But sending absentee ballots through the mail takes time, and ballots […]
Wisconsin Legislature Sues to Reopen the State — What Now?
Last week, the Republican-led Wisconsin legislature filed a lawsuit seeking to block the extension of Governor Tony Evers’ Safer at Home order, previously scheduled to end on April 24 and now extended to May 26. Today on the show, Carousel is joined by legal expert Lester Pines to unpack what this all means for Wisconsin […]
