Billionaire Elon Musk handed out a pair of $1 million checks to voters in Wisconsin on Sunday in an effort to galvanize conservatives ahead of the stateโs Supreme Court elections on Tuesday.
Musk handed out the checks at a town hall in Greenbay, Wisconsin, after the state Supreme Court declined to intervene in the giveaway. The recipients of the checks were each voters who had signed a petition calling for an end to โactivist judges.โ
โJudges should be simply interpreting the law and not making the law,โ Musk said at the rally. โWe just want judges to be judges, you know, which is the reasonable thing to ask for. Weโre obviously seeing some crazy stuff in D.C. where, you know, it seems like any federal judge can stop any action by the President of the United States. This is insane. This has got to stop.โ
Wisconsin Democrats had sought to prevent Musk from handing out his checks, arguing he was illegally buying votes. State Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, was struck down by two lower courts on the issue before the stateโs supreme court declined to even hear the case. The court has a 4-3 liberal majority.
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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., right, presents a one-million dollar check to an attendee during an America PAC town hall ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. (Getty Images)
Wisconsin voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the courtโs new makeup in an election that Musk has described as โsuper important.โ
Muskโs attorneys argued in court filings that the payments are โintended to generate a grassroots movement in opposition to activist judges, not to expressly advocate for or against any candidate.โ
The effort echoed Muskโs similar program of offering $1 million checks in battleground states ahead of the presidential election last year.
In that case, a judge in Pennsylvania similarly said prosecutors failed to show the effort was an illegal lottery and allowed it to continue through Election Day.
Elon Musk hands a check to Ekaterina Diestler at the March 30 town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Fox News)
Muskโs campaign is in support of Brad Schimel, Republican former attorney general.
Schimel told โFox News Sundayโ that he does not control โany of the spending from any outside group, whether itโs Elon Musk or anyone else.โ
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Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel, candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, speaks to supporters during a campaign stop. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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โThatโs exactly what Iโve committed to anybody, whether itโs President Trump, Elon Musk or any donors and donors or supporters or voters in Wisconsin,โ the candidate added. โThatโs my commitment.โ
The Associated Press and Fox News Digitalโs Charles Creitz and Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.