Last week, a unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court declined both of the very weak original action petitions seeking to overturn the Wisconsin congressional maps. We applaud our state's justices for making a sound decision on the two redistricting challenges brought before them earlier this year.
This decision reinforces the legitimacy of our state's congressional maps and pushes back against radical, out-of-state leftists trying to meddle in Wisconsin. This repeated rejection by the court, including just last year, speaks volumes about the lack of merit in these challenges.
WILL Deputy Counsel, Lucas Vebber, stated, "As we explained months ago, any effort to try and redraw our congressional district lines in the middle of a decade like this would face an uphill fight. This is a common sense decision from the court, and a win for the rule of law in Wisconsin."
WILL filed non-party briefs in both cases detailing the flaws in the petitions seeking to overturn the maps. Our legal memorandum published in early April explained the legal and practical difficulties any effort to try to get our state’s highest court to redraw the congressional maps would face.
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