Elon Musk is reclaiming his most controversial gambit since the 2024 presidential election. It’s about paying voters as part of a plan to identify conservatives and find out.
The Super PAC, which Musk established to imprint on a Republican cause, said it had called registered Wisconsin voters on Thursday to sign a petition “oppose activist judges” or to others to sign it. Musk is using the group to spend millions of dollars on selecting conservative candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the April 1 election.
The petition reads: “Judges must interpret the law in writing and reject the action of activist judges who impose their opinions and demand judiciary respecting their role by signing below, rather than rewriting them to suit their personal or political agenda.
The purpose of the petition is multifaceted. It will raise attention from news media, increase conservative voter awareness and voter registration, and help collect data on valid Wisconsinians for conservative candidate Brad Schemmel.
Musk performed nearly identical operations on the battlefield before the November election, creating important legal and political debates.
The Philadelphia District Attorney sued to stop the distribution of these lottery-style payments. However, the day before the election, a Pennsylvania judge refused to stop the prize.
The revival of the US PAC’s use of petitions, and the language of the new Wisconsin document, reveals two of Musk’s priorities as he wields broad powers in Washington.
The first is its focus on Wisconsin court elections. Wisconsin can return control of the state’s highest judicial body to conservatives after the Liberal Party won a major victory there in 2023. Musk’s Super PAC and the Allied nonprofits spent more than $11 million trying to select judges.
So is Musk’s electric car company Tesla. Sued Wisconsin to challenge state law Manufacturers are prohibited from owning dealers. In January, eight days after Tesla filed the lawsuit, Musk was I wrote it on x“It is extremely important to vote Republicans on the Wisconsin Supreme Court to prevent voting fraud.”
The second is his obsession with removing judges whom Musk sees as obstructing Trump’s agenda. He posts to X every day about his frustration with federal justice and how the refreshing language of new petitions points to its focus.
But while petitions from Musk’s group condemn the judge, who is openly political, there is little question as to where the loyalty of his favorite candidate in Wisconsin will lie.
