Trump allies dealt another loss in attempt to punish Wisconsin's GOP speaker
The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal that would have allowed Donald Trump supporters to salvage their effort to recall Republican assembly speaker Robin Vos.
The court refused to hear the Trump backers' appeal of Dane County Circuit Court Judge Stephen Ehlke's ruling from July that petition signatures were wrongly collected under legislative boundary lines that are now banned from use for any election, and the Wisconsin Elections Commission also rejected their petition, reported the Associated Press.
Trump supporters have been trying to recall Vos, the longest-serving assembly speaker in Wisconsin history, after he refused calls to decertify President Joe Biden's election win in the state, where the 21,000-vote victory in 2020 has stood up to two partial recounts, lawsuits, an independent audit and a review by a conservative law firm.
Vos also drew their ire by refusing to back their plan to impeach top state election official Meagan Wolfe.
The recall organizers had hoped to force an election for a week before this month's primary election, which Von won after the other Republican candidate on the ballot dropped out of the race.
Vos will face Democrat Alan Kupsik in the November election, and the winner will begin serving a two-year term in January.