A three-judge panel from the Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a federal judge’s ruling against a suit filed by the Trump campaign seeking to have him declared the winner in Wisconsin.
Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump by fewer than 22,000 votes in the state, but the campaign had asked US District Judge Brett Ludwig to order the Republican-controlled Legislature to name Trump the winner. Ludwig was a Trump appointee, but he rejected the campaign’s arguments, saying they failed “as a matter of law and fact.” The appeals panel made its ruling Thursday afternoon.
It said the campaign should have challenged Wisconsin’s election laws before the election was held.
