Wisconsin Supreme Court Refused to Hear Democrats’ Congressional Redistricting Lawsuits
Wisconsin has eight Congressional districts. Republicans represent six of them.
Thanks, Fox News, for bringing this to my attention.
On June 25, the left-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to hear two lawsuits brought by Democrats that challenged the state’s congressional district boundaries.
Wisconsin has eight Congressional districts. Republicans represent six of them.
The Democrats are desperate to flip the seats in 2026.
From WisPolitics:
One of the new suits argued the districts when drawn failed to adhere to standards requiring the districts to have identical populations. That would be six districts with 736,715 people and two with 736,714. But some districts when drawn had 736,716 people. The suit, filed by the Campaign Legal Center, also argued the congressional map improperly split counties.
The other suit involved Dem voters whose legal team includes the firm of Dem attorney Marc Elias, who is well known for his work on election cases. It argued the lines are a partisan gerrymander that violates protections in the Wisconsin Constitution for equal protection as well as free speech and association. The suit argued it does that by packing Democratic voters in the 2nd and 4th districts — the only two now represented by Dems — while diluting their share of the electorate in several other seats in a way that makes it impossible to elect a representative of their choice.
Both suits also argued the maps should be thrown out because they were based on a “least change” approach that was the foundation for the lines.
The decision came before Susan Crawford took her seat. Crawford won’t be sworn in until August 1.
However, even if Crawford had voted for the lawsuits, it would not have mattered, as both were unanimous decisions.
The court did not issue any comments about the lawsuits and decisions.
As I said, the Democrats want to flip those seats in 2026. The party thought it had a chance since the court ordered the state to redraw boundaries at the state level.
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Comments
Dramacrats – finding a way to cheat and steal elections since 1828,
That’s an odd comment to make when they just failed in an attempt to cheat and steal — and when it was a D-controlled court that stopped them.
Don’t be so obtuse… you and everyone else knows the Dems are all about cheating in any and every possible way. For you to pretend otherwise makes you look like a utter fool…. But hey maybe that’s your comfort zone come to think of it
Shut up you toxic slanderous piece of filth.
The story is about the fact that the Dems just failed to find a way to cheat. And that it was their own judges who stopped them. That makes ztakddot’s comment very odd, it makes my comment precisely on point, and it makes your attack on me completely unjustified. Go join your friend the demon Azathoth in Hell.
That’s ‘daemon-sultan’, Democrat. Get it right.
Do I ever fail in applying your chosen nomenclature, DEMOCRAT”, to you?
And you are a good Democrat, no? Calling people ‘slanderous’ for pointing out how you cheat and steal, For how you connive and demoralize?
What is best is that, after utterly exposing yourself, you think you can just screech away what you did, that we’ll all just forget.
And they ARE trying to cheat and steal–they fought that redistricting like rabid animals when that didn’t have a magically elected judge on the court–and it’s going to come back up, somehow when she finally gets installed.
Democrats cheat and steal elections.
Marc Elias: Nuff said
Good for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Even left-wing liberals sometimes come to the correct conclusion.
I wonder why, though.
Even they knew the outcome in the Ds favor would be an extrem gerrymander dividing the city of Milwaukee into multiple districts.
And?
A good win.
We need more election law wins – but this a good one.
Go Pack Go!
its all a trick
refusing to hear this but when the DO hear the case(s) dems wont lose out
Huh?! They’re not hearing it. It’s dismissed. Gone.
When I lived in Md, we had a great conservative rep in Roscoe Bartlett – until the dems felt they had to get rid of that seat. They passed thru a sort of pencil shaped district pulling from the reliably blue areas in Montgomery County all the way north into Carroll County and west, the only MD conservative areas. Of course the population numbers were totally shifted south. There went Mr Bartlett.
It was an exceptionally grievous arrangement, IMO.