The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to take up a Trump lawsuit that seeks to disqualify more than 200,000 ballots in the state, a case dismissed earlier by a circuit court judge.
The lawsuit attempts to invalidate up to 221,000 ballots in Milwaukee and Dane counties, Democratic bastions in the state. The state’s Supreme Court initially declined to hear the case before it went through lower courts.
Oral arguments are reportedly scheduled in the state’s highest court on Saturday.
A Trump campaign official told the Washington Examiner earlier on Friday that it planned to appeal the circuit court judge’s decision.
The Trump campaign focused its efforts on four main issues, absentee ballots issued for in-person voting without applications, clerical editions of missing information on ballot envelopes, “Democracy in the Park” events held in Dane County, and “involuntarily confined voters.”
The president’s campaign also alleged that over 5,000 ballot envelopes in the state were inappropriately edited by clerks because they did not show details like the address of the ballot witness.
Jim Troupis, a lawyer for the Trump campaign, told the Washington Examiner in early December that the lawsuit was “the real deal” and was confident the team would be victorious in the case.
