A Wisconsin lawyer hired by Republican lawmakers to investigate the state’s 2020 election results privately shared doubts about the feasibility of decertification while publicly calling for the state to take a “hard look,” according to a newly released memo.
Michael Gableman, a former state Supreme Court justice, told Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican, that while decertification of the 2020 presidential election was “theoretically possible” it raised “substantial constitutional issues.”
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“While decertification of the 2020 presidential election is theoretically possible, it is unprecedented and raises numerous substantial constitutional issues that would be difficult to resolve. Thus, the legal obstacles to its accomplishment render such an outcome a practical impossibility,” Gableman wrote to Vos in a memo obtained by the Washington Post.
His public comments suggested otherwise, with Gableman saying as recently as March that the state legislature “ought to take a very hard look at the option of decertification of the 2020 Wisconsin presidential election.”
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Gableman also presented a lengthy report detailing allegations of maleficence in the 2020 election, which have since been refuted by the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
Gableman was hired by Vos last summer to investigate the 2020 election as lawmakers faced pressure from supporters of former President Donald Trump. In May, Gableman’s election inquiry was paused due to litigation over the investigation in court.
