The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Sunday unanimously rejected a last-ditch effort by the state’s Democratic attorney general to block Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters ahead of Tuesday’s statewide judicial election.
Attorney General Josh Kaul previously argued in a lawsuit Friday that Musk’s payments violated state law prohibiting gifts intended to induce voting, but both lower courts and the state’s highest court declined to intervene. The state’s Supreme Court 7-0 decision not to hear Kaul’s emergency appeal came hours before Musk’s event. A written ruling from Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has not yet been publicly released.
Musk, who appeared at an America PAC town hall in Green Bay shortly after the ruling, handed out oversized $1 million checks to two voters who had signed a petition opposing “activist judges” and announced cash incentives for grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts.
“But what’s happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives. That is why it is so significant,” Musk said. “And whichever party controls the House, you know, it to a significant degree, controls the country, which then steers the course of Western civilization. So it’s like I feel like this is one of those things that may not seem that it’s going to affect the entire destiny of humanity, but I think it will.”
“The House majority right now is razor thin. It’s really just a few seats,” Musk continued. “And if the Supreme Court is able to redraw the districts, they will gerrymander the districts and deprive Wisconsin of two seats on the Republican side … Yes. Indeed. And then they will try to stop all of the government reforms that we are doing and we’re getting done for you, the American people.”
Musk described the cash giveaways as a token of “appreciation” and warned that the left was pouring out-of-state money into Crawford’s campaign while pretending to oppose outside influence. Records show Crawford has relied heavily on donations from liberal coastal donors, even as Democrats blasted Musk’s involvement as an attempt to “buy” the court.
Yes, it is utterly insane.
The American people would have been disenfranchised if the machine represented by the Kamala puppet had won.
Thankfully, we have President Trump. https://t.co/DMQQlKkP9a
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2025
The world’s richest man — who heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — has increasingly become a lightning rod for Democratic criticism as he throws his weight behind conservative judicial and policy priorities.
The race between former conservative attorney general Brad Schimel and liberal Judge Susan Crawford will determine the ideological balance of the state’s Supreme Court. Though technically nonpartisan, the race is serving as the first post-election referendum on Trump-era policy battles and future rulings on abortion, redistricting and election integrity.
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