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

FILE - A man walks by the Wisconsin Capitol, Oct. 10, 2012, in Madison, Wis. Democratic voters hoping to undo Republican-drawn Wisconsin legislative district boundary maps told the new liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, that it should draw new maps by March 2024 that would force every lawmaker to stand for election under redrawn lines in 2024.

Those comments “invited” the filing of the current lawsuit, the Legislature argued in its latest filing with the Supreme Court. If Protasiewicz overturns the court’s earlier ruling adopting the Republican-drawn map, that will be evidence of unconstitutional “prejudgment and bias,” the Legislature argued.

The redistricting lawsuit, filed the day after Protasiewicz joined the court in August and flipped majority control to 4-3 for liberals, asks that all 132 state lawmakers be up for election next year in newly drawn districts. In Senate districts that are midway through a four-year term in 2024, there would be a special election, with the winners serving two years. The regular four-year cycle would resume again in 2026.

That makes Wisconsin an outlier nationally, with 46 other states having no noncontiguous districts, and Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Tennessee having a total of nine noncontiguous districts, attorneys argued.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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