Right-wing partisans are trying to short-circuit the upcoming legislative redistricting process and rig it in their favor to increase the likelihood that another Republican gerrymander can be put in place for the next 10 years just like the one that was foisted on Wisconsin in 2011. The far-right Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) is maneuvering to limit any judicial review of redistricting in our state to the Wisconsin Supreme Court with its conservative majority.
This is a clear case of court shopping in hopes of guaranteeing they get the outcome they want. They don’t want lower state courts to have any say or to give citizens the opportunity to weigh in, and they also want to avoid what happened in Wisconsin in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s when federal judges were asked to intervene in the process and drew state legislative and congressional district maps that did not clearly favor either major party. WILL’s cynical ploy should be seen for what it is and rejected.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court justices need to hear from the public on this. Tell them the court shouldn’t allow itself to be used this way. That will only further politicize our court system and further undermine public confidence in the state Supreme Court.
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