A Wisconsin voter and two Democratic electors have filed the lawsuit seeking $2.4 million from alternate GOP electors and two related attorneys, arguing the defendants were part of a conspiracy to overturn then-President Trump’s 2020 reelection loss.
The plaintiffs are also trying in the case to disqualify the Republicans from serving as electors again.
Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington scheduled the case for a jury trial in September 2024, just two months before the presidential election in which Trump may be the Republican nominee.
Federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment against Trump earlier this month that the former president and his supporters started a scheme in Wisconsin to tap fake electors who could vote for Trump in the electoral college in states in which the popular vote went for now-Democrat President Joe Biden.