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Republicans have accused the liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court of doing the bidding of the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris by stopping a third-party candidate from taking votes from her.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission decided that Green Party candidate Jill Stein was eligible to be on the state’s ballot this year because she received more than 31,000 votes in 2016, Legal Newsline reported. Former President Donald Trump took the state that year by a razor-thin margin of around 23,000 votes.

But the Green Party was not on the state’s ballots in 2020, when President Joe Biden took the state by around 20,000 votes, and now Democrats have filed a lawsuit to keep the Green candidate off the ballot this year.

What’s more, after the state’s left-leaning high court issued an order just three days after the lawsuit was filed, conservative Justices on the court believed that their liberal colleagues are fast-tracking the case for political purposes.

“The majority steps beyond its neutral role to lawyer the case on behalf of the DNC, seemingly facilitating an expedited review of this original action,” Justice Rebecca Bradley, a conservative, said in her dissent.

“Other parties presenting original action petitions have not received such preferential treatment by this court,” she said.

In their petition before the state Supreme Court, Democrats argued the Green Party has technical errors with its application to be on the state’s ballots. The Party does not have state officers or senators to meet at the state Capitol to nominate electors at 10 a.m. on the first Tuesday in October. “So the Green Party needed to identify an affiliated person eligible to nominate an elector by placing a candidate on the ballot for a legislative district,” Legal Newsline noted.

“Because the Wisconsin Green Party has no affiliated individuals who are eligible under Wisconsin law to nominate presidential electors for the Wisconsin Green Party, the Party cannot as a matter of law field a candidate for president ‘for which electors in [each] county may vote,” the Democratic National Committee petition said.

The outlet added:

The Wisconsin Elections Commission meets next week to certify the ballot it has approved, which includes the Green Party. So things obviously need to move quickly through the Supreme Court’s docket.

The WEC was served with the suit on Tuesday, a day after it was filed. The Green Party got it Wednesday.

By Thursday, the liberal court was ready to get things moving. It gave the DNC two hours to provide it with the contact information for WEC officials who could accept orders of the court.

“The majority issues an unprecedented order directing the petitioner – within two hours – to give the court contact information for the respondents, which is currently absent from the record because no one has entered an appearance on behalf of any parties,” Bradley said.

“To my knowledge, at no time in history has the court issued orders before parties had made their appearances,” she said.

It is not the first time that the liberal court has sided with Democrats.

In a 4 – 3 decision in December, the court ruled to allow ballot drop boxes in the 2024 election using what some might call legal gymnastics. Elections have consequences, and when the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the use of ballot boxes after the 2020 election, it leaned conservative at the time.

Justice Ann Walsh Bradley—no relation to her conservative colleague on the court—agreed that the state Constitution does not explicitly allow drop boxes, but it does allow voters to leave their ballots with the County Clerk, and therefore, the County Clerk may choose to use drop boxes, Just The News reported.

“By mandating that an absentee ballot be returned not to the ‘municipal clerk’s office,’ but ‘to the municipal clerk,’ the Legislature disclaimed the idea that the ballot must be delivered to a specific location and instead embraced delivery of an absentee ballot to a person,” Ann Walsh Bradley, who penned the decision, wrote. “Given this, the question then becomes whether delivery to a drop box constitutes delivery ‘to the municipal clerk.”

“A drop box is set up, maintained, secured, and emptied by the municipal clerk. This is the case even if the drop box is in a location other than the municipal clerk’s office. As analyzed, the statute does not specify a location to which a ballot must be returned and requires only that the ballot be delivered to a location the municipal clerk, within his or her discretion, designates,” the Justice said.

Rebecca Bradley penned her dissent to the majority decision.

“The majority again forsakes the rule of law in an attempt to advance its political agenda,” the Justice said. “The majority began this term by tossing the legislative maps adopted by this court … for the sole purpose of facilitating ‘the redistribution of political power in the Wisconsin Legislature.’ The majority ends the term by loosening the Legislature’s regulations governing the privilege of absentee voting in the hopes of tipping the scales in future elections.”

“To reach this conclusion, the majority misrepresents the court’s decision in Teigen, replaces the only reasonable interpretation of the law with a highly implausible one, and tramples the doctrine of stare decisis,” she said.

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