The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Sunday unanimously refused to hear a last-minute petition from the state’s attorney general to block $1 million payments by Elon Musk to two random Wisconsinites who signed an online petition against “activist judges.”
Wisconsin’s attorney general submitted an emergency petition on March 30 to prevent the White House adviser and tech billionaire from making the payments.
The court, which has a 4–3 majority of liberal-leaning justices, gave no reason for its decision.
Two lower state courts had already rejected challenges submitted by Wisconsin 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....
