Progressive legal outfit Law Forward filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the ten Republicans who fraudulently cast electoral votes for Donald Trump in 2020 and the two lawyers who assisted their plan.

The lawsuit, filed in Dane County Circuit Court with assistance from the Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) on behalf of two of the rightful Democratic electors and a Wisconsin voter. This is the first lawsuit in the country against the false electors who cast votes in seven states.

The fraudulent electors, including then-Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin Andrew Hitt and Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Robert Spindell, met on Dec. 14, 2020, the day the state’s Electoral College votes were statutorily required to be cast, voted for Donald Trump and sent the results to Congress to be counted.

Recounts, audits, reviews and investigations have affirmed that Trump lost the 2020 election in Wisconsin to Joe Biden. The fraudulent votes were part of a broader scheme to overturn the results of the election based on unproven claims of election fraud and were a crucial piece of the chain of events that led to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The fraudulently cast electoral votes and the belief that the election was stolen in Wisconsin have persisted, leading Republicans to continuously make baseless claims of election fraud and some to push the unconstitutional and impossible legal theory that...

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