Lawsuits calling for new Wisconsin congressional map are in the hands of 6 county judges. Now what?
At a time when states across the country are locked in redistricting battles aimed at swaying the balance of power in Congress, two lawsuits attempting to redraw Wisconsin’s congressional map are using a process that is anything but ordinary.
The state Supreme Court has formed panels of circuit court judges to hear the map challenges, relying on a law passed by Republicans when they controlled all of state government more than a decade ago.
Here’s a look at how the state arrived at that process, and how it might play out.
When the Wisconsin Supreme Court appointed two, three-judge panels to hear the congressional map lawsuits, liberal justices said they were required by law to follow that process.
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