As another campaign season begins, President Donald Trump has continued to dredge up conspiracy theories about his election loss to Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump has praised a federal raid on Fulton County officials in Georgia to seize ballots from that election. He’s called to “nationalize” elections heading into the 2026 midterms. At the same time, Republicans in Congress have passed the SAVE Act in the U.S. House that would require proof of citizenship to vote, a measure critics say would disenfranchise millions of voters who don’t have passports or birth certificates that match their married name.

That bill is currently before the U.S. Senate.

Election controversies are often settled in court, and Wisconsin has an election on April 7 for a spot on the state Supreme Court between conservative candidate Judge Maria Lazar and liberal candidate Judge Chris Taylor.

Here & Now sat down with the candidates to ask them about an important Supreme Court decision from the 2020 election and see how they would have ruled.

In the days after Biden won Wisconsin and the race for president in 2020, Trump and his supporters immediately began spreading election conspiracy theories. Among his efforts to overturn the election, Trump’s campaign sued in Wisconsin, attempting to throw out some 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 the majority. However, it was conservative Justice Brian 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.

The candidates in the 2026 election described how they would have ruled if they had been on the court in 2020.

“I would have rejected that effort,” Taylor said. “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. That’s alarming to me.”

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,” she said. 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 on this case.'”

As far as whether someone’s going to say to Lazar, “Well, you didn’t answer the question — Trump v. Biden, would you have overturned all those votes?” What’s her reaction to that?

“Well, 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,” Lazar added. “So, I wouldn’t comment and I don’t actually know the parameters of how they were going to try to disenfranchise or not disenfranchise voters, so I really don’t have any further thing that I can say about that case.”