Wisconsin Supreme Court suspends phony election planner from Judiciary Commission • Wisconsin Examiner

Troupis, who also previously served as a Dane County District Court judge, was charged with forgery for his role in masterminding a plan to get a group of Republicans to cast fraudulent votes for Trump in the Electoral College after the 2020 election.

Despite his role in the election fraud, Troupis was reappointed to the advisory panel in March 2023 by the court’s then-conservative majority. The panel, which consists of nine members – six judges, a court commissioner, an attorney and a member of the public – provides opinions and advice on judges’ compliance with the state’s Code of Judicial Conduct.

The appointment for a second three-year term came a month before the Supreme Court election that elected Janet Protasiewicz, changing the Court’s ideological direction. The four conservatives appointed Troupis to the committee, despite the objections of the Court’s three liberal justices at the time.

Last week, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced that Troupis and two other former Trump associates had been charged for their role in planning the election fraud. The plot was then outsourced to a number of other states and played a major role in the events leading up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Troupis also served as counsel for the Trump campaign in its request for a recount of votes in Dane and Milwaukee counties and in its subsequent attempt to invalidate thousands of mail-in ballots cast in those predominantly Democratic counties in an effort to overturn the election results.