The U.S. Supreme Court sided in favor of Wisconsinโs Republican-led Legislature on a redistricting issue. The Supreme Court won’t get involved in the challenge to Wisconsin congressional maps but says the state supreme court erred in imposing aย legislative map with an additional Black district from the [Democrat] governor. ย It’s a win for the GOP legislature.
It has Democrats on social media livid. They want to stack the court, claiming the Court is biased.
THE RULING
The nationโs highest court reversed a ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court that had selected the map drawn by Democrat Gov. Tony Evers. They sent the case back to the state for reconsideration.
โIn a second unsigned ruling on Wednesday, which was one sentence long and noted no dissents, the court rejected a challenge from five Republican congressmen who objected to the congressional map adopted by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which had also been prepared by Mr. Evers, a Democrat,โ the New York Timesย reported.
โIn the case on state legislative districts, lawyers for the Legislature and four voters filed an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court that called the governorโs map a 21st-century racial gerrymander, focusing on the fact that it increased the number of State Assembly districts around Milwaukee in which Black voters made up a majority to seven from six. The Legislatureโs map dropped the number to five,โ the report added.
LEAST CHANGES APPROACH
Back in December, the Wisconsin Supreme Courtย sided with Republicansย in a redistricting case that should keep the stateโs boundaries intact for a decade.
In a 4-3 ruling, the courtโs conservative majority said it would take a โleast changesโ approach to Wisconsinโs current legislative and congressional maps, effectively limiting any changes in political boundaries to population changes.
Democrats argued that those old maps โ which were approved by the Republican-controlled legislature and signed by a Republican governor โ were drawn to give the GOP a distinct political advantage and that the new maps should be redone entirely.
The state leadership is split with a Democrat governor in Tony Evers, who had vetoed the maps put forth by the Republican legislature this year.
But in its ruling, the court said there was no reason for it to step in because the maps already passed muster.
โThe existing maps were adopted by the legislature, signed by the governor, and survived judicial review by the federal courts,โ the decision, by the conservative majority court, said. โTreading further than necessary to remedy their current legal deficienciesโฆwould intrude upon the constitutional prerogatives of the political branches and unsettle the constitutional allocation of power.โ
โWe adopt the least-change approach to remedying any constitutional or statutory infirmities in the existing maps because the constitution precludes the judiciary from interfering with the lawful policy choices of the legislature,โ itย said.
OPINION
Democrats only want legislative maps changed if drawn by Republicans. They always use the phony racism ruse. In fact, they actually give undue voting power to the black population because they vote for Democrats.
The court refused to consider the fairness of the maps because it is a โpurely political question.โ
Eric Holder is trying to redistrict Republicans out of office throughout the country.
"Todayโs [U.S. Supreme] Court action in Wisconsin is grounded in an unprecedented process and a failure to adhere to precedent." โ @EricHolder
Our full statement on SCOTUS' ruling on Wisconsin's state legislative maps ➡️ https://t.co/96uayfMXou pic.twitter.com/Sfoq1dCxDv
— NDRC (@DemRedistrict) March 23, 2022
Subscribe to the Daily Newsletter
wpDiscuz
