(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to get involved in the former Donald Trump lawyer and Dane County Circuit Judge Jim Troupis, who is facing 11 felony charges in Wisconsin related to an alternate set of electors in the 2020 election.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Hyland denied Troupis’ motion to dismiss the charges, which Troupis claimed were the result of “blatant political bias.”
Troupis’ lawyer, Joseph Bugni, went on to question whether Hyland authored the ruling, instead believing the writing was actually authored by retired Dane County Circuit Court Judge Frank Remington.
Remington’s son is a law cleark for Hyland.
Hyland recently denied Bugni’s request to move the case to another county, stating that “no person other the assigned staff attorney and I had a hand in drafting or editing the decision.”
Bugni has cited a forensic linguistics expert from Georgetown University who he said analyzed the order and documents previously written by Judge Hyland and Judge Remington, concluding it was “highly likely from a linguistic perspective, that the [August 22 Court order] was written by Judge Remington, despite the fact that it is signed by Judge Hyland.”
“It is difficult to understand how Judge Hyland can make an impartial decision about Mr. Bugni’s allegations when he is directly implicated,” Johnson wrote in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Therefore, I respectfully request that the Department of Justice review Mr. Troupis’ case to determine whether any wrongdoing has occurred.”
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced charged in 2024 against Kenneth J. Chesebro, Michael A. Roman and Troupis for fraudulent writings and being “part of a conspiracy to present a certificate of purported electoral votes from individuals who were not Wisconsin’s duly appointed electors,” according to Kaul.
