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By Sam Britt
A federal judge rejected a lawsuit brought forth by two Wisconsin Republicans, citing numerous errors and claiming that it wasn’t filed in good faith, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
State Reps. David Steffen and Jeffrey Mursau were seeking a preliminary injunction that was trying to undo the certification of elections in Wisconsin and other swing states that went to President-elect Joe Biden.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg stated that the lawsuit had so many errors within it that the lawyers involved may need to be sanctioned professionally.
“Courts are not instruments through which parties engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures," Boasberg wrote. "As a result, at the conclusion of this litigation, the Court will determine whether to issue an order to show cause why this matter should not be referred to its Committee on Grievances for the potential discipline of Plaintiffs’ counsel."
Errors included filing the lawsuit in the wrong court that did not have jurisdiction over all the defendants and naming the wrong person as the majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate.
"In addition to being filed on behalf of Plaintiffs without standing and (at least as to the state Defendants) in the wrong court and with no effort to even serve their adversaries, the suit rests on a fundamental and obvious misreading of the Constitution," Boasberg wrote. "It would be risible were its target not so grave: the undermining of a democratic election for President of the United States."