More than 100 Trump family members, supporters, and advisors were targets of Democrats’ lawfare after the 2020 presidential election, including more than a dozenTrump lawyers who were disbarred, or suffered other financially devastating discipline for giving legal advice to Trump and his campaign.
Jim Troupis is one of those lawyers. Troupis spent more than 30 years at the pinnacle of Wisconsin’s legal profession before his life was turned upside down for advising Donald Trump about potential fraud in the 2020 election. The abuse began with frivolous complaints to the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) and state bar. Then, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, another Democrat seeking fame in the pantheon of Donald Trump-haters, unfathomably indicted Troupis for doing that which Kaul said he should do.
It violates due process for a state to indict someone for following its advice, or to suppress exculpatory evidence. Yet, Kaul did both, leveraging misconceptions about alternative electors to falsely allege that Troupis led Republicans to commit election fraud.
Troupis received his law degree from Northwestern University and began his career in Illinois, before moving to Madison, Wisconsin. There, as chair of the litigation practice at Michael Best & Friedrich, he was instrumental in taking the firm from 12 lawyers to a nationwide force. Troupis was highly respected for his counsel on election law, with clients such as the Republican Party, governors, judges, the state legislature, numerous presidential campaigns, and voter integrity programs. He was a principal author of Wisconsin’s recount statute and election law, and served on the Special Joint Legislative Committee on Election Law. From 2015 to 2016, he was a circuit court judge.
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