Wisconsin Gov. Evers, through some awfully shrewd attorneys, may have found the answer to constant lawsuits that now seem to accompany every Republican loss, at whatever level, President (especially Trump), senator, house, governor, etc. If the lawsuit is ridiculous, and most are, make the loser pay… personally, not the campaign, not using someone else’s money, not donors, make the candidate pay. According to Law and Crime:

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) asked a federal judge to force former President Donald Trump to “personally” pay fees for his “audacious” election-subversion efforts, days after a brutal sanctions ruling imperiled the law licenses of nine lawyers who attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election in key states. “More than eight months ago, former President Trump filed this lawsuit in an audacious attempt to overrule the will of the voters by fiat,” the governor’s attorney Jeffrey A. Mandell wrote in a 17-page legal brief.

Requesting attorneys’ fees, Evers pointed to the far heavier sanctions sought by the city of Detroit in a case by the so-called “Kraken” lawyers, whose efforts to overturn election results in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin were rejected by every court. On Wednesday night, a federal judge in Michigan referred each of the nine attorneys associated with the Michigan arm of that litigation to face disciplinary proceedings in their home states for “possible suspension or disbarment.”

So now we are left to wonder. If Trump knew that he would be forced to pay for many of these lawsuits personally, how many would be filed? We are not saying that the candidate should be forced to pay for every suit brought post-election. Some have merit, some might even be victorious. But when a suit is filed almost symbolically, the judge should be asked to assign the fees to the man who demanded that the campaign file the suit in the first place.

We love this idea. Trump is already bleeding money at the worst possible time. Yes, he has a big PAC/Campaign war chest. But from everything we’ve read, he’s struggling along personally with balloon payments due soon on debts and devalued property. Personally paying for expensive lawsuits seems like a just result.

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