BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks Gov Evers redistricting plan (WI)

[brooklynite]

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[milestogo]

1. Thanks, partisan SCOTUS.

Hurry up and die, Clarence.

[PatSeg]

2. Damn

[riversedge]

3. damn. WI has been hard gerrymandered past decade and looks like it will be for another decade!!

[FakeNoose]

16. As we learned in Pennsylvania, it is possible to get maps redrawn before the next census

This is a bad corner for Wisconsin Dems, but it's not the end of the road. In PA it took almost 8 years to get our 2010 gerrymandered maps redrawn. They had been drawn by Repukes and they heavily favored the Repukes. We're a state that has almost 50/50 evenly split voter registration. Neither party had an advantage (that was before Chump) in general elections, even though individual districts have distinct majorities. That's true in just about every state. But after the 2010 Congressional map was drawn the Repukes won many of the Congressional elections. Several seats were flipped from D to R, and nothing flipped the other way.

As I said it took almost 8 years but Dems and Independents got the 2010 map thrown out in time for the 2018 election. It was confirmed by the PA Supreme Court and then SCOTUS refused to overturn it.

Don't lose heart, Wisconsin Democrats. It's not over yet!

[gab13by13]

4. Hard to win a rigged election by GOTV,

but it's all we have.

2025 may be the expiration date for our democratic form of government.

[JohnSJ]

5. This seems to say the opposite of the OP. I'll take Reuters over the OP

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/u-s-supreme-court-rebuffs-republicans-in-wisconsin-congressional-map-dispute/ar-AAVpY17?li=BB141NW3

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142892669

[Peacetrain]

6. Isn't Evers a Democrat??

I

[milestogo]

15. Yes.

[lagomorph777]

7. Confusing as hell. Here's the deal: a win on the Congressional map; a loss on the state map.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/u-s-supreme-court-rebuffs-republicans-in-wisconsin-congressional-map-dispute/ar-AAVpY17?li=BB141NW3

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the use of a map configuring Wisconsin's congressional districts for this year's elections drawn by Democratic Governor Tony Evers, giving a boost to efforts by President Joe Biden's party to retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The justices turned away a Republican bid to block the map drafted by Evers and approved by the Wisconsin Supreme Court setting boundaries for the state's eight U.S. House districts after the governor vetoed one made by the Republican-controlled legislature he deemed unfairly skewed against Democrats. The emergency request to the justices was made by five Republican U.S. House members.

The court also granted a Republican request seeking to block new maps for Wisconsin's state legislature, with two liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissenting. The court sent that case back to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and ordered it to adopt new maps laying out the various districts.

[brooklynite]

9. They upheld the Congressional maps but blocked the State leg maps

[obamanut2012]

12. Ah! Makes sense -- thank you

I had read the Reuters link a bit ago, so was confused about the OP.

[obamanut2012]

10. I am so confused

[Marius25]

8. I'm confused.

I just read another article saying the Supreme Court rejected the Republican maps, and is allowing Evers' plan to go forward.

[obamanut2012]

13. Correct

[karynnj]

11. I think they left the CONGRESSIONAL districts, but threw out the state legislature one

leading to what appears to be contradicting headlines. (The Reuters article seems to say that and mentions that in the latter case, the dissent was written by Sotameyer and Kagan.

[33taw]

14. This is the opinion.

[link:https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a471_097c.pdf|

[Baitball Blogger]

17. "Unprecedented"

Now there’s a word you don’t expect to hear from a Court made out of justices who claim they believe in stare decisis

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Eric Holder on this ruling

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