Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Regarding Wisconsin 2020 False Elector Scheme

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 -- 3:00 PM

(Rich Kremer, Wisconsin Public Radio) Two lawyers who orchestrated a scheme to send a false slate of presidential electors from Wisconsin after former President Donald Trump lost the state in 2020 have agreed to never do it again.

According to Rich Kremer with Wisconsin Public Radio, the settlements between attorneys Jim Troupis and Kenneth Chesebro and the liberal firm Law Forward now closes a lawsuit that resulted in 10 of Trump’s false electors admitting their actions were “part of an attempt to improperly overturn the 2020 presidential election results.”

The settlements marks the end of a lawsuit filed in 2022 alleging Wisconsin Republicans who posed as presidential electors in 2020 paved the way for the deadly Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol aimed at overturning President Joe Biden’s victory.

Under terms signed by Troupis and Chesebro in late-February, the two agree to not participate in creating alternate slates of electors without being “certified as the persons elected as presidential electors under state law.”

“In other words, if they’re going to work on electoral votes again, they have to be real electoral votes,” Law Forward Staff Counsel Scott Thompson told WPR. Beyond that, Thompson said, both settlements also focused on transparency, forcing both Troupis and Chesbro to release previously private documents to the public.

“And this really goes to the heart of what this case has been about,” Thompson said. “Transparency and accountability.”

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