>> Mayor Jim Paine, thanks very much.
>> Thank you. >> In the last few weeks,
President Donald Trump has continued to dredge up
conspiracy theories about his election loss to Joe
Biden in 2020. Election controversies are often
settled in court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court
election is less than a month away, pitting
conservative candidate Judge Maria Lazar against
Liberal candidate Judge Chris Taylor. Here and now.
Senior political reporter Zach Schultz interviewed
the candidates about an important Supreme Court
decision from the 2020 election to ask them how
they would have ruled. >> We won. Let's go.
>> In the days after Joe Biden won Wisconsin and the
race for president in 2020, Donald Trump and his
supporters immediately began spreading election
conspiracies among his efforts to overturn the
election, Trump's campaign sued in Wisconsin,
attempting to throw out 220,000 ballots in Dane and
Milwaukee counties, the two largest Democratic areas of
the state. The case reached the Wisconsin Supreme Court
as Trump v Biden and with conservatives in control of
the court, it was Justice Bryan Hagedorn who sided
with the three liberal justices to deny Trump's
request and refuse to take the case, saying the
campaign did not have standing to sue. The three
other conservatives did not say whether they would have
sided with Trump and thrown out the ballots, but they
would have taken the case. We asked the candidates in
this election how they would have ruled if they'd
been on the court. >> I would have rejected
that effort. Again, that stands in contrast with my
opponent. My opponent has been supported in the past
in her Court of Appeals race by the same
individuals that led the charge in trying to
overturn our 2020 election. I think that was the right
decision. That was, again, a one only a one vote
decision, which is alarming because if that case had
been successful, hundreds of thousands of votes in
the state of Wisconsin would have been thrown out.
And that's alarming to me. >> Judge Lazar, like the
conservatives who dissented in that case, focused on
whether Trump had standing to file suit.
>> This is sort of an area that's really deeply in
flux with our state Supreme Court. They have issued
several opinions that have gone around the edges of it,
and so I'm not going to comment any further on
where they would go, because I honestly believe
that standing is going to come back up in our next
term. So when I'm on this court, I don't want to have
someone say, you said in an interview, so now you can't
rule in this case. >> As far as whether
someone's going to say, well, you didn't answer the
question. Trump v Biden, would you have overturned
all those votes? Can you give me a reaction to that?
>> I have answered the question, but with respect
to overturning votes, I strongly believe that every
vote should be counted. So every legal valid vote
should be counted. So I wouldn't comment, and I
don't actually know the parameters of how they were
going to try to disenfranchize or not
disenfranchize voters. So I really don't have any
further thing that I can further thing that I can