The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects the effort to block gifts of $ 1m of Musk

The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the demand of Wisconsin Josh Kaul attorney to prevent Elon Musk and America PAC on Sunday night to execute a drawing draw on Sunday night from $ 1 million to two attendees in a town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

The order occurred a few minutes before the event, the conservative candidate Brad Schimel, of support, began.

In particular, the court also rejected an offer from Musk’s lawyers to ask two judges, who had campaigned for the candidate of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Susan Crawford, to be challenged.

The ruling occurred after an appeals court on Saturday denied Kaul’s emergency motion to prevent the raffle from occurring.

Kaul wrote in his initial presentation on Friday that he was asking for emergency relief to stop Musk and America PAC “to further promote a million dollars to attend the attendees of an event planned on Sunday, March 30, 2025, and prohibit respondents from making payments to Wisconsin voters to vote.”

However, the judge assigned to the case, the honorable judge of the Circuit Court of Columbia County, W. Andrew Voigt, refused to listen to the lawsuit before the Green Bay rally on Sunday with Musk, which caused Kaul’s emergency motion asking for an appeals court that takes measures.

After this emergency motion was rejected, Kaul appealed to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin to intervene on Sunday.

Elon Musk and America Pac’s lawyers presented motions to challenge the judges of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin Rebecca Frank Dallet and Jill J. Karofsky.

They argued that because Dallet and Karofsky made a campaign for Crawford, and Crawford has been critical of Musk, “to avoid possible bias perceptions and demonstrations of possible biases, Dallet and Karofsky judges should refuse to participate in consideration of this matter.”

The lawyers also framed the planned gifts on Sunday night as “spokesperson agreements” for PAC spokesmen.

In the initial demand, shared by Kaul’s office, Kaul argued that “Musk’s announcement of his intention to pay $ 1 million to two Wisconsin voters who attend their event on Sunday night, specifically conditioned on the fact that there has been on April 3, 2025, Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, it is a shameless attempt to violate” the state law ” People who offer any of the people who offer any of the components to a contest of an election to a concentration of an voter of the choice of voters.

The lawsuit requested a restriction order “that prohibits the accused of any additional promotion of the gifts of one million dollars to the attendees to Sunday, March 30, 2025”, as well as a temporary restriction order of temporary restriction “prohibits those accused of making any payment to the voters of Wisconsin” and the relief of the states of the law of the state. “

Until now, two political groups aligned with Musk, America PAC and the construction of the future of the United States, have poured almost $ 20 million in the support of Schimel for the open seat.

The richest man in the world has used cash raffles in the past, including a controversial raffle of $ 1 million offered to voters in the swing states during last year’s electoral cycle as part of an effort to boost the possibilities of winning President Donald Trump in those states.

The election of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, on Tuesday, has generally become the center of a political storm and has become the most expensive state Supreme Court career in the history of the United States, according to the Brennan Justice Center at the University of New York.