Lawyer who oversaw Trump elector scheme in Wisconsin reappointed to judicial advisory panel

A lawyer who suggested Wisconsin Republicans on utilizing pretend electors after the 2020 election has been reappointed to a state panel that renders advisory opinions and recommendation for judges.

The Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom ordered the reappointment of legal professional Jim Troupis to the Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee for a time period that runs till March 7, 2026. The court docket’s 4 conservative justices supported his reappointment whereas three liberal justices dissented.

Troupis was the lead Wisconsin legal professional for former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign following Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden within the 2020 election. Troupis oversaw Trump’s partial recount in Dane and Milwaukee Counties, submitting a lawsuit that requested the Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom to overturn Biden’s victory within the state. The court docket rejected the lawsuit on the day Wisconsin’s precise electors met on the Capitol.

Troupis’ title resurfaced final yr when the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol turned its consideration to Trump’s use of false electors in Wisconsin and different swing states. The New York Occasions printed a memo Troupis acquired from Trump legal professional Kenneth Chesebro laying out the electors’ technique. Chesebro later joined Troupis in an unsuccessful last-ditch attraction asking the U.S. Supreme Courtroom to overturn Wisconsin’s election outcomes.

Troupis’ involvement in Wisconsin politics predates Trump. For years, he was a go-to skilled for Republicans on redistricting, serving to them draw the legislative map in 2011 that cemented GOP energy for a decade. In 2015, former Republican Gov. Scott Walker appointed Troupis to a judgeship on the Dane County Circuit Courtroom, and in 2016, Troupis utilized to Walker for a emptiness on the state Supreme Courtroom.

Based on the state Supreme Courtroom’s web site, the Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee “was created to render formal advisory opinions and provides casual recommendation to judges and judicial officers ruled by the Code of Judicial Conduct.” The panel contains 9 members, together with six from the judiciary, one court docket commissioner, one legal professional and one public member. Troupis was advisable for reappointment by the court docket’s “Appointment Choice Committee,” in accordance with Tom Sheehan, the court docket’s public info officer.

On the state Supreme Courtroom, Troupis’ appointment was backed by conservative Justices Annette Ziegler, Rebecca Bradley and Persistence Roggensack, in addition to conservative swing Justice Brian Hagedorn. Liberal Justices Ann Walsh Bradley, Rebecca Dallet and Jill Karofsky voted towards Troupis’ reappointment however didn’t write individually to clarify their dissent.