Trump files lawsuit in Wisconsin

Agency: US President Donald Trump yesterday filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state’s two most Democratic counties.

According to AP, it is a longshot attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s win in a battleground state he lost by nearly 20,700 votes.

Trump filed the case a day after Democratic Governor Tony Evers and the chairwoman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission certified Biden as the winner of the state’s 10 Electoral College votes.

Trump asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case directly, rather than have it start in a lower court, and order Evers to withdraw the certification.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court gave Evers until 8:30 p.m. Tuesday to respond to the lawsuit, an unusually tight deadline that speaks to how quickly the court is likely to decide the case.

Trump’s lawsuit repeats many claims he made during a recount of votes in Milwaukee and Dane counties that large swaths of absentee votes were illegally cast. Local officials rejected his claims during the recount, and Trump is challenging procedures that have been in place for years and never been found to be illegal.

Trump is not challenging any ballots cast in conservative counties he won.