Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul’s political witch hunt against Trump allies via a phony “fake electors” case is crumbling, propped up by a legal asterisk.
In a stinging court filing that shreds the leftist AG’s deeply flawed legal arguments, Madison attorney Joseph Bugni asserts that the problem isn’t that the government can’t prove its case, “it’s that there’s not a case to prove.”
Bugni represents former long-time attorney and former Dane County Judge Jim Troupis, who served as former President Donald Trump’s legal counsel following the disputed 2020 presidential election.
In June, Kaul held a press conference on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps to announce charges against Troupis and his co-defendants, fellow attorney Kenneth Chesebro and political operative Michael Roman, related to what the attorney general and his friends in corporate media have erroneously labeled a “fake electors scheme.” The state Department of Justice hit the three defendants with massaged forgery charges in a case that one former U.S. Department of Justice attorney and Federal Election Commission member described as an “abusive political prosecution” that should be tossed out and ultimately lead to sanctions against a highly partisan attorney general.
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As The Federalist reported last month, unsealed documents in Dane County Circuit Court exposed the anemic legal arguments Kaul and crew make in attempting to criminalize the 2020 Wisconsin alternative electors contingency plan. Troupis is fighting to quash a previously secret subpoena that the former judge’s attorney argues fails to meet the basic
