Wisconsin Democrats are inching closer to overturning Republican-drawn legislative maps that the GOP has used over the past 13 years to grow their majorities and advance their agenda.
At issue in battleground Wisconsin are the boundaries for state Assembly and Senate districts in a purple state where Republicans have held a firm grip on control of the Legislature even as Democrats have notched significant statewide wins.
Republicans drew the lines in 2011 and Democratic court challenges have since failed to overturn them, until now. Republican maps adopted in 2022 by the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court used the 2011 map as a template and kept largely the same lines in place.
The neutral redrawing of districts in my home state of Michigan has made a transformational difference for both local and national politics. I really hope Wisconsin can do the same.
Maybe we can finally get legal weed 🙄
I don’t know if there is a political battle more important than this one is right now. It could literally decide the next election.
Especially now that Biden is doing his best to lose Michigan by alienating the considerable Muslim population there…
The joys of states with constant democrat governor’s but Republican legislatures from gerrymandered as fuck districts.
Democrats filed their latest lawsuit the day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court flipped to majority liberal control in August after the election win by Justice Janet Protasiewicz. Her vote was the difference maker in the 4-3 December ruling tossing the Republican maps.
WHAT CAN REPUBLICANS DO?
Republicans are running out of options to stop the lines from being redrawn. They argued Protasiewicz shouldn’t hear the lawsuit because she said during her campaign that the GOP-drawn maps were “rigged” and “unfair.” But she did not recuse herself. Now Republicans are talking about raising that issue, and others, in an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court alleging due process violations.Poor argument of Republicans even by the Republican standard, but then again SCOTUS is hypocritical at the moment.
“we did an illegal thing and got called out on it, and one of the people who decides has already correctly pointed out it’s illegal! No fair!” stomps feet
Better late than never.
