5 Apr 2023 3:01 pm
The maps have already been to the State Supreme Court. It will take a new case...and this is very important...based on a new reason to challenge the maps.maineman » 05 Apr 2023, 2:52 pm » wrote: ↑ State Supreme courts can and have tossed out redistricting plans in the past. They will undoubtedly do so in the future. Methinks Wisconsin may be next..
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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/re ... wisconsin/
On March 3, the Wisconsin Supreme Court chose a map drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers as the Badger State’s new congressional plan, spurning a map drawn by Republicans in the legislature. Justice Brian Hagedorn sided with the court’s three liberal justices in the 4-3 ruling.
The new map, however, still favors Republicans, a consequence of the court’s earlier ruling that it would not consider partisanship when choosing the map and would instead try to make as few changes as possible. The new map has six Republican-leaning seats and only two Democratic-leaning seats, along with an efficiency gap of R+27. However, the new map does make the light-red 1st District significantly more competitive than the Republican plan would have — a partisan lean of R+6 instead of R+14.
Wisconsin redistricting fell to the state Supreme Court after Evers vetoed the Republican-drawn map in November. GOP members of Congress appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the map, but on March 23, the Supreme Court denied their request, clearing the way for the map to be used in the 2022 midterms.