The Supreme Court sided with Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature, overturning state legislative maps that created a new majority-Black district, and that had been approved by both Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the state Supreme Court.
The United States Supreme Court sided with Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature on Wednesday, overturning state legislative maps that had been approved by both Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the conservative majority state Supreme Court.said that the state court had not given enough consideration
to whether the Voting Rights Act required adding a seventh assembly district in the state Assembly that would be made up primarily of Black voters. The Court found that the state court “committed legal error” in failing to consider the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause when deciding on the maps.
The ruling remands the case back to the state Supreme Court, which can reconsider Evers’s maps. But “any new analysis,”The addition of a seventh majority-Black district in the state would arguably fall in line with both the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection clause, given thatJustice Sonia Sotomayor penned a dissent blasting the decision as “unprecedented,” which Justice Elena Kagan signed on to.
“The court today faults the State Supreme Court for its failure to comply with an obligation that, under existing precedent, is hazy at best,”
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