Overview
- Judge John Hyland declined to step aside and refused to cancel or move the preliminary hearing in the Dane County case.
- The defendants — Jim Troupis, Kenneth Chesebro and Mike Roman — each face 11 felony counts tied to the 2020 alternate electors effort.
- Hyland said only he and his staff attorney drafted the August order denying dismissal and asserted he holds no personal animus toward the parties.
- Defense filings sought postponement, an evidentiary hearing before a judge in another county and recusal of all Dane County judges, with the supporting materials under seal.
- The state’s complaint alleges the trio created a document falsely claiming Trump won Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes and tried to deliver it to then–Vice President Mike Pence, with each count carrying up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.