(The Uihleins did not respond to requests for comment through requests made to Fair Courts America as well as company emails.) Richard also funds a super PAC called Fair Courts America that has spent at least $5.2 million so far on television, radio, and digital ads backing Kelly and opposing his liberal opponent Protasiewicz. The Uihleins, who founded shipping company Uline, each gave a maximum $20,000 directly to Kelly’s campaign. Public Wise has given $375,000 to progressive groups working on the Wisconsin race. The Uihleins “fund a variety of other major conservative PACs and super PACS to run ads that span the gamut of culture war topics in service of Daniel Kelly’s campaign,” said Eli Szenes-Strauss, political director at Public Wise, a voting rights organization that endorsed Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz last week. If Kelly wins, the court would maintain a 4-3 conservative majority but shift further in favor of the extreme right. The same couple has spent more than $5 million so far backing the campaign of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly.

In the days after the attack, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, two of the country’s largest conservative political donors, gave more than $5 million to groups seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Capitol - are putting millions into trying to throw the race to the right-wing candidate. This year, with an election for a seat on the court looming on Tuesday, far-right political funders - including those who continued pouring money into attempts to overthrow the 2020 race after the January 6 attack on the U.S. The decision put the already conservative-leaning Wisconsin court in the sights of MAGA Republicans.

The decision secured the upper-Midwestern state’s electoral votes for Joe Biden, ensuring his White House win. At the Wisconsin Supreme Court, President Donald Trump’s bid to throw out around a quarter million ballots from Democratic strongholds was dismissed - by a 4-3 margin. The fate of the 2020 presidential election may have come down to one vote.

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