WaPo: Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns GOP-favored legislative maps [[link removed]]
Wisconsin's newly-progressive State Supreme Court gave MAGA Republicans a big lump of coal at the end of last year, John.
Wisconsin -- largely seen as the most gerrymandered state in the country -- had a case in the state Supreme Court seeking to redraw their suppressive maps fairly. It's the case that MAGA Republicans were most afraid of this fall after a progressive judge won the state's open seat and flipped the deeply conservative court blue.
So how gerrymandered is Wisconsin? In 2018 -- Democratic state assembly candidates received 54 percent of the popular vote in Wisconsin, but Republicans still won 63 of the assembly’s 99 seats -- just three seats short of the two-thirds supermajority Republicans would need to override a gubernatorial veto.
To paraphrase Joe Biden -- this is a big "_____" deal . Republicans plan to appeal, but this case is likely to restore true democracy in Wisconsin and lay the groundwork for fairly drawn maps that give the people the representation they deserve in the state legislature.
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➜ In 26 states -- including Florida, California, and Maine -- State Supreme Court justices are appointed. It's crucial that Democrats win and control governorships in these states to ensure progressive judges are nominated.
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