In a surprise ruling, Wisconsin's liberal-majority Supreme Court tossed out a Democratic challenge to the state's redistricted map.
. Though drawn by a Democrat, the current districts were supported by Republicans as the best-case scenario. The lawsuit, brought forward by a Democratic group, threatened to throw out those districts as unconstitutional, ensuring an even more unfavorable redistricting for Republicans.“Mess around and find out,” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella told the .
Republicans feared the worst after last year’s election of Justice Janet Protasiewicz, which ensured the court’s liberal majority.
“Janet Protasiewicz ran on a platform of changing Wisconsin’s political maps,” Rep. Glenn Grothman , who filed the recusal motion for the congressional maps alongside state politicians and four members of Congress in Wisconsin’s delegation, told the “Obviously, a lot of support she got was to reach that decision. That’s a huge problem. It’s a huge scandal,” he said.
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