WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT: Janet Protasiewicz (D) on Wisconsin redistricting: "The maps are rigged"
On April 4, voters will choose between Janet Protasiewicz and Daniel Kelly and determine the future ideological balance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But that same election will determine whether the court will look backwards as well.
“So that’s when I say, yes, those maps are rigged,” said Protasiewicz, who has made clear she believes Wisconsin’s legislative maps are gerrymandered in favor of Republicans.
Protasiewicz said the state Supreme Court erred twice on its path to approving those maps.
The first error came in 2021 when the court’s conservative majority announced they would not draw new legislative boundaries, but would instead choose from maps submitted by Gov. Tony Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The best map, according to the court, was one that kept the new boundaries as close to the existing boundaries as possible, so as to have the fewest number of voters switch legislative districts.
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