Wisconsin Legislature allowed to intervene in redistricting
3 years, 4 months ago

Wisconsin Legislature allowed to intervene in redistricting

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A three-judge panel of federal judges has granted the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature’s request to intervene in a redistricting lawsuit brought by Democrats. A third redistricting lawsuit, brought by conservatives, is pending before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which has not yet said whether it will take it or require it to first go through lower state courts. In the order granting the Legislature’s request, the judges said federal courts have routinely allowed state lawmakers and legislatures to intervene in redistricting cases. “If prediction is correct, and Wisconsin fails to enact a law establishing new districts before the election, it’s hard to see how this court could proceed without input from the Legislature,” judges James Peterson, Amy St. Eve and Edmond Chang wrote.

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Wisconsin Republicans sue to resolve conflict of when Electoral College votes must be cast for Trump
1 month ago

Wisconsin Republicans sue to resolve conflict of when Electoral College votes must be cast for Trump

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republicans have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to resolve a discrepancy between state and federal law about what date the state’s presidential electors must meet to cast Wisconsin’s 10 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump. The Wisconsin Republican Party asked in the lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court seeking an order that …

Wisconsin taxpayers to pay half the cost of redistricting consultants hired by Supreme Court
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Wisconsin taxpayers to pay half the cost of redistricting consultants hired by Supreme Court

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin taxpayers will pay half of the $128,000 bill submitted by redistricting consultants hired by the state’s Supreme Court for the work they did reviewing proposed legislative maps, the liberal majority of the court ordered Monday. They called the court’s order a “brazen imposition of judicial will.” The court hired a pair of redistricting consultants to review …

Republican DA asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide abortion lawsuit without lower court ruling
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Republican DA asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide abortion lawsuit without lower court ruling

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A Republican prosecutor asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to decide whether a 174-year-old state law bans abortion in the state without waiting for a ruling from a lower appellate court. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion, reactivated an 1849 law that conservatives have interpreted …

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor signs his new legislative maps into law after Republicans pass them
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor signs his new legislative maps into law after Republicans pass them

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed new legislative district maps into law on Monday that he proposed and that the Republicans who control the Legislature passed to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court draw the lines. Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler said the new maps will have a “reverse coattails” effect benefitting Democrats in the …

Wisconsin Republicans urge state Supreme Court to reject redistricting report’s findings
11 months, 1 week ago

Wisconsin Republicans urge state Supreme Court to reject redistricting report’s findings

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republicans urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to ignore a report from redistricting consultants that determined GOP-proposed legislative maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. While Republicans argue that the consultants’ findings are unsound, Democrats asked the court on Thursday to adopt one of their maps that the consultants found were “nearly indistinguishable.” The stakes are huge …

Wisconsin redistricting experts tell Supreme Court Republican map proposals are gerrymanders
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Wisconsin redistricting experts tell Supreme Court Republican map proposals are gerrymanders

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to examine maps redrawing state legislative districts said Thursday that plans submitted by the Republican Legislature and a conservative law firm are partisan gerrymanders, but they stopped short of declaring the other four maps constitutional. “While this is just one step in this process, today is an important day for …

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor vetoes Republican map as another redistricting court fight looms
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor vetoes Republican map as another redistricting court fight looms

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. The veto came a day after five of Wisconsin’s Republican members of Congress, along with the GOP-controlled Legislature, asked the newest liberal member of the state Supreme Court not to hear a lawsuit that seeks to redraw congressional district maps ahead of the November election. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos accused Evers of trusting …

GOP lawmakers ask Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider redistricting ruling, schedule for new maps
1 year ago

GOP lawmakers ask Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider redistricting ruling, schedule for new maps

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Republican lawmakers have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to stay and reconsider its finding that the state’s legislative district boundaries are unconstitutional. Attorneys representing a host of Republican state Senators filed a motion with the court Thursday saying they can’t meet the court’s Jan. 12 deadline for new maps. The court ordered the Legislature and other parties …

Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case brought by Democrats
1 year ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case brought by Democrats

LA Times  

The Wisconsin Supreme Court listens to arguments from Wisconsin Assistant Atty. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a state with large Republican legislative majorities. “Because the current state legislative districts contain separate, detached territory and therefore violate the constitution’s contiguity requirements, we enjoin …

Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case brought by Democrats
1 year ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case brought by Democrats

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities. “Because the current state legislative districts contain separate, detached territory and therefore violate the constitution’s contiguity requirements, we enjoin the Wisconsin Elections Commission …

Wisconsin leader pivots, says impeachment of state Supreme Court justice over redistricting unlikely
1 year ago

Wisconsin leader pivots, says impeachment of state Supreme Court justice over redistricting unlikely

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly who had threatened possible impeachment of a new liberal state Supreme Court justice over her views on redistricting now says such a move is “super unlikely.” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos originally threatened to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she did not recuse herself from the redistricting challenge, which is backed by …

Wisconsin prosecutor appeals ruling that cleared way for abortions to resume in state
1 year ago

Wisconsin prosecutor appeals ruling that cleared way for abortions to resume in state

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A Republican district attorney has appealed a court ruling that determined that an 1849 Wisconsin law does not ban abortions, a decision that cleared the way for abortions to resume in the state. Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski on Tuesday appealed the ruling from a Dane County judge that said there is no state ban on …

Wisconsin Supreme Court Hearing Arguments On Redistricting That Could Result In New Maps For 2024
1 year, 1 month ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court Hearing Arguments On Redistricting That Could Result In New Maps For 2024

Huff Post  

FILE - A man walks by the Wisconsin Capitol, Oct. 10, 2012, in Madison, Wis. Supporters of Wisconsin's taxpayer-funded school choice and independent charter school programs urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is located inside the state Capitol, on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, to reject a lawsuit seeking to declare the programs unconstitutional, saying such a move would create chaos …

Democrats urge Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn Republican-drawn legislative maps
1 year, 1 month ago

Democrats urge Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn Republican-drawn legislative maps

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democrats urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn Republican-drawn legislative maps Tuesday, with conservative justices questioning the timing of the redistricting challenge, while liberals focused on the constitutionality of the current maps and what the process should be for adopting new ones. Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley most aggressively questioned the motives of Democrats and repeatedly referenced newly …

Wisconsin Supreme Court asked to draw new legislative boundaries over Republican objections
1 year, 2 months ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court asked to draw new legislative boundaries over Republican objections

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic voters in Wisconsin hoping to undo Republican-drawn legislative district maps told the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court on Monday that it should create new maps by March — forcing every lawmaker to stand for election under redrawn lines in 2024. New maps favoring Democrats would weaken Republicans’ grip on legislative power, which they have also used in …

Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice rejects GOP call to recuse on redistricting cases
1 year, 3 months ago

Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice rejects GOP call to recuse on redistricting cases

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote along partisan lines Friday, agreed to hear a challenge to Republican-drawn legislative maps after a newly elected liberal justice declined to recuse herself. Republicans had asked that Protasiewicz recuse from both redistricting cases, arguing in their motion that “Justice Protasiewicz’s campaign statements reveal that her thumb is very much …

Wisconsin redistricting fight focuses on the recusal of a key justice as impeachment threat lingers
1 year, 3 months ago

Wisconsin redistricting fight focuses on the recusal of a key justice as impeachment threat lingers

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Republicans fighting to preserve Wisconsin legislative electoral maps they drew argue in new legal filings that a key liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice must recuse from the case despite the dismissal of complaints against her related to comments she made about redistricting. Democratic allies asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the Republican maps counter in …

Wisconsin Assembly Republicans pass sweeping redistricting reform, but likely veto awaits
1 year, 4 months ago

Wisconsin Assembly Republicans pass sweeping redistricting reform, but likely veto awaits

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Assembly passed a sweeping redistricting reform plan Thursday that takes the power of drawing maps out of the hands of lawmakers and gives it to nonpartisan staff. Democrats, suspicious of Republican motives, urged opposition to the proposal, saying it’s all a ruse designed to circumvent the newly liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court from throwing out the …

Wisconsin Democrats combat threatened impeachment of court justice with $4M effort
1 year, 4 months ago

Wisconsin Democrats combat threatened impeachment of court justice with $4M effort

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Democratic Party on Wednesday launched a $4 million effort to pressure Republicans to back down from impeaching a new liberal state Supreme Court justice being targeted after she criticized GOP-drawn legislative electoral maps and spoke in favor of abortion rights. The judge’s election tipped the balance of power in the state Supreme Court, giving Democrats …

Liberals fight Republican attempt to boot Wisconsin Supreme Court justice from redistricting case
1 year, 4 months ago

Liberals fight Republican attempt to boot Wisconsin Supreme Court justice from redistricting case

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Liberals argued in a legal filing this week that Republicans were trying to nullify the election of a Democratic-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court justice by asking her to recuse herself from hearing redistricting lawsuits that could result in drawing new legislative electoral maps. Attorneys in two separate redistricting cases filed arguments Tuesday objecting to the Republican-controlled Legislature’s request …

Wisconsin Republicans ask newly elected liberal justice to not hear redistricting case
1 year, 4 months ago

Wisconsin Republicans ask newly elected liberal justice to not hear redistricting case

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature asked that the newest Democratic-backed justice on the state Supreme Court recuse herself from lawsuits seeking to overturn GOP-drawn electoral maps, arguing that she has prejudged the cases. Republicans argue in their motions filed with the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday and made public Wednesday that Justice Janet Protasiewicz can’t fairly …

Lawsuit targets Wisconsin legislative districts resembling Swiss cheese
1 year, 5 months ago

Lawsuit targets Wisconsin legislative districts resembling Swiss cheese

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — If Wisconsin state Rep. Jimmy Anderson wants to visit residents in some of the northern neighborhoods he represents, he first must leave his own district — twice. Though the Wisconsin Constitution requires legislative districts “to consist of contiguous territory,” many nonetheless contain sections of land that are not actually connected. But few have gone so far as …

The Rule of Janet Is Here. Wisconsin Republicans Should Be Afraid.
1 year, 5 months ago

The Rule of Janet Is Here. Wisconsin Republicans Should Be Afraid.

Slate  

Justice Janet Protasiewicz was sworn into the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, creating a 4–3 liberal majority after years of conservative domination. After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to restrict partisan redistricting, Wisconsinites had just one remaining solution: their state Supreme Court, which remains free to limit gerrymandering under the state constitution. Second, it claims that the maps violate freedom …

Wisconsin lawsuit asks new liberal-controlled Supreme Court to toss Republican-drawn maps
1 year, 5 months ago

Wisconsin lawsuit asks new liberal-controlled Supreme Court to toss Republican-drawn maps

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A lawsuit filed Wednesday asks Wisconsin’s newly liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to throw out Republican-drawn legislative maps as unconstitutional, the latest legal challenge of many nationwide that could upset political boundary lines before the 2024 election. Republican Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said Democrats were “counting on judicial fiat to help them gain power.” He accused them …

Plaintiffs in voting rights case urge judges to toss Alabama’s new congressional map
1 year, 5 months ago

Plaintiffs in voting rights case urge judges to toss Alabama’s new congressional map

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Voting rights activists are returning to court to fight Alabama’s redrawn congressional districts, saying state Republicans failed to follow federal court orders to create a district that is fair to Black voters. A special three-judge panel in 2022 blocked use of the the state’s existing districts and said any new congressional map should include two districts where …

Appeals court orders new congressional lines in New York, a potential boon for Democrats
1 year, 6 months ago

Appeals court orders new congressional lines in New York, a potential boon for Democrats

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — A mid-level state appeals court on Thursday ordered new congressional lines be drawn for New York, a ruling that could benefit Democrats in the 2024 fight for control of the U.S. House. The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court and directed a state redistricting commission to start work on new proposed state …

Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at redistricting lawsuit
1 year, 6 months ago

Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state’s congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday set aside a ruling striking down the districts and ordered further consideration of the case. In both Ohio and North Carolina, Republican state lawmakers contended in appeals that their state’s highest court had gone too far …

Abortion Rights And Democracy Are On The Line In Wisconsin Court Race
1 year, 9 months ago

Abortion Rights And Democracy Are On The Line In Wisconsin Court Race

Huff Post  

MILWAUKEE ― Wisconsinites are set to elect a new justice to the state’s Supreme Court on Tuesday. The combination of a “tipping point” election for control of the state Supreme Court and its relevance for “hot-button issues” like abortion rights and gerrymandering, “make this maybe the biggest Wisconsin Supreme Court race that we’ve ever had,” said Robert Yablon, a constitutional …

Debate on abortion access turns to Wisconsin high court race
1 year, 10 months ago

Debate on abortion access turns to Wisconsin high court race

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — National groups on both sides of the abortion fight on Wednesday pledged significant spending in the race for a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, tossing the perennial battleground state into the spotlight of the searing debate over abortion access. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz, who campaigned as an abortion rights supporter and received the …

EXPLAINER: How Supreme Court case could alter US House seats
2 years, 1 month ago

EXPLAINER: How Supreme Court case could alter US House seats

Associated Press  

Partisan gerrymandering is back before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case stemming from the latest attempt by North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature to draw U.S. House districts favoring GOP candidates. The lawsuit against the U.S. House districts enacted by the Republican-led Legislature cites the state constitution’s guarantee of “free and equal” elections. OTHER COURT CASES The outcome of the North …

Wisconsin judge blocks absentee ballot spoiling
2 years, 3 months ago

Wisconsin judge blocks absentee ballot spoiling

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin judge is prohibiting voters from canceling their original absentee ballot and casting a new one, siding with a conservative group created by prominent Republicans that said the practice known as ballot spoiling is illegal. The ruling Wednesday from a Waukesha County judge who was a former Republican attorney general comes as voters in the battleground …

Criticism over latest NC redistricting back at Supreme Court
2 years, 3 months ago

Criticism over latest NC redistricting back at Supreme Court

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s Supreme Court returned to the state’s recent divisive round of redistricting on Tuesday, as justices heard further challenges to General Assembly and congressional district lines getting used for next month’s elections. In a 4-3 decision, the court’s Democratic justices declared that partisan gerrymandering violates the state constitution and that the congressional and legislative lines approved …

2 lawsuits target Wisconsin policy on absentee ballots
2 years, 3 months ago

2 lawsuits target Wisconsin policy on absentee ballots

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Two lawsuits filed this week argue that Wisconsin election clerks should be allowed to accept absentee ballots that are missing portions of witness addresses, the next step in the ongoing legal battle that has pit conservatives against liberals in the battleground state. The lawsuits, filed three days apart on Tuesday and Friday, come after a judge in …

Abortion Ruling Puts Gerrymandering Back In The Spotlight
2 years, 6 months ago

Abortion Ruling Puts Gerrymandering Back In The Spotlight

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In overturning a half-century of nationwide legal protection for abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Roe v. Wade had been wrongly decided and that it was time to “return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives” in the states. Writing for the Supreme Court’s majority in its June 24 abortion decision, Justice Samuel Alito …

Wisconsin governor asks for swift action on redistricting
2 years, 9 months ago

Wisconsin governor asks for swift action on redistricting

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s Democratic governor told the state Supreme Court on Thursday that it should allow him to submit additional evidence defending his legislative district boundary map that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected, arguing it is still better than the one submitted by the Republican Legislature. Evers also asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court, if it doesn’t adopt his original …

Lawsuit challenges Arkansas congressional redistricting plan
2 years, 10 months ago

Lawsuit challenges Arkansas congressional redistricting plan

Associated Press  

— A federal lawsuit was filed Monday challenging Arkansas’ new U.S. House district lines, claiming the new boundaries violate Black voters’ rights and weaken their influence by splitting the Little Rock area among three congressional districts. The lawsuit filed by six residents, including two Black Democratic state lawmakers, said the redistricting plan approved by the majority-Republican Legislature last year violates …

Supreme Court stays out of key state rulings on partisan gerrymandering, for now
2 years, 10 months ago

Supreme Court stays out of key state rulings on partisan gerrymandering, for now

NPR  

Supreme Court stays out of key state rulings on partisan gerrymandering, for now Enlarge this image Drew Angerer/Getty Images Drew Angerer/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to intervene in redistricting disputes in North Carolina and Pennsylvania ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Republican-aligned groups then asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state court decisions and …

Federal judge dismisses Arkansas redistricting lawsuit
2 years, 10 months ago

Federal judge dismisses Arkansas redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

— A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ new state House districts after the Justice Department declined to intervene in the case. In last week’s decision, Rudofsky said groups challenging the state’s new House boundaries had a “strong merits case” but ruled that private groups couldn’t sue to claim violations of the federal Voting Rights Act. The …

Judge to toss Arkansas redistricting case unless DOJ joins
2 years, 10 months ago

Judge to toss Arkansas redistricting case unless DOJ joins

Associated Press  

— A federal judge said Thursday he’s dismissing a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ new state House districts as diluting the influence of Black voters, unless the Justice Department joins the case as a plaintiff. U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky said there’s “a strong merits case that at least some of the challenged districts” in the lawsuit by two groups violate the …

Bipartisanship stumbles on New York redistricting panel
2 years, 11 months ago

Bipartisanship stumbles on New York redistricting panel

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Democrats on New York’s redistricting commission threw up their hands Monday, a day before a bipartisan panel — apparently in name only — was to submit redrawn congressional boundaries to state lawmakers. “It’s unfortunate that New York’s so-called redistricting reform has created redistricting gridlock,” Steven Romalewski, director of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Mapping Service, said Monday. The …

How Two Republican Judges Saved Their States From Plunging Into A Democratic Crisis
3 years ago

How Two Republican Judges Saved Their States From Plunging Into A Democratic Crisis

Slate  

This week, the Wisconsin and Ohio Supreme Courts approached the brink of partisan destruction—then pulled back, saved in each case by the courageous vote of a lone Republican justice. In Wisconsin, the court authorized the deposition of State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a ringleader of Republicans’ “fraudit” seeking to delegitimize President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. Gableman’s “interim report” is loaded …

US Supreme Court won’t end Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit
3 years, 1 month ago

US Supreme Court won’t end Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

The U.S. Supreme Court this week rejected a lawsuit from Wisconsin Republicans seeking to kill a redistricting case brought by Democrats, keeping hope alive for liberals that they can seek to block GOP-drawn maps through the federal courts. They wanted the Supreme Court to dismiss the Democrats’ case, which attempts to have federal courts draw the state’s political boundary lines. …

Top Wisconsin court affirms GOP’s preferred approach to maps
3 years, 1 month ago

Top Wisconsin court affirms GOP’s preferred approach to maps

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Republicans in a redistricting dispute, ruling that it saw no need to make significant changes to the maps that have helped the GOP win majorities in the state Legislature and congressional delegation. But the Supreme Court’s conservative majority said changes to the current maps should be limited to …

Democrat Evers vetoes Republican-drawn redistricting
3 years, 1 month ago

Democrat Evers vetoes Republican-drawn redistricting

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers followed through Thursday on his promise to veto the Republican-drawn redistricting plans, calling the maps “gerrymandering 2.0.” The move officially shifts the fight over the once-a-decade job of drawing new political boundary lines for legislative and congressional districts to the courts. The last three times redistricting took place in Wisconsin under divided …

Wisconsin GOP OKs redistricting plans while Dems can’t agree
3 years, 2 months ago

Wisconsin GOP OKs redistricting plans while Dems can’t agree

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature on Thursday gave final approval to the GOP’s redistricting plans, after the maps proposed by a nonpartisan commission were lambasted by several Democrats. Democrats and other opponents to the GOP maps want Republicans to consider alternate proposals, including ones drawn by the commission. The proposed maps would largely keep those legislative districts in …

GOP-led Wisconsin Senate OKs their own redistricting plan
3 years, 2 months ago

GOP-led Wisconsin Senate OKs their own redistricting plan

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin state Senate on Monday approved a redistricting plan similar to one passed a decade ago in an apparent attempt to hold the line on GOP majorities in the Legislature. Democratic state Sen. Chris Larson, of Milwaukee, described the GOP-drawn maps as “an abortion of democracy,” and said the maps are based on a “newfound …

Wisconsin Republicans take redistricting case to high court
3 years, 3 months ago

Wisconsin Republicans take redistricting case to high court

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a redistricting lawsuit brought by Democrats that asks a federal court to draw political boundary lines in the battleground state. The filing by attorneys representing the Republican-controlled Legislature comes two days after the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court said it would hear a similar case …

Wisconsin GOP redistricting resolution draws Democratic ire
3 years, 3 months ago

Wisconsin GOP redistricting resolution draws Democratic ire

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A resolution from Wisconsin Republicans calling for new political boundary lines to adhere as closely as possible to existing congressional and legislative districts drew criticism Thursday from Democrats, who have long argued that the existing maps are gerrymandered and unconstitutional. One of guidelines in the resolution calls for retaining “as much as possible the core of existing …

Wisconsin high court to hear GOP-backed redistricting case
3 years, 3 months ago

Wisconsin high court to hear GOP-backed redistricting case

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear a redistricting lawsuit supported by the Republican-controlled Legislature, a move that comes as a Democratic-backed lawsuit progresses in federal court. In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority sided with the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty in agreeing to take the case, with its three liberal …

EXPLAINER: Wisconsin redistricting legal battle picks up
3 years, 3 months ago

EXPLAINER: Wisconsin redistricting legal battle picks up

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The battle over drawing new political boundary lines in Wisconsin is heating up, with federal judges telling the Legislature and Gov. U.S. District Judge James Peterson said the court needs to prepare to draw maps if Republican lawmakers and the Democratic governor can’t agree. “If history is any guide, there is at least, to put it mildly, …

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