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It’s that time of the decade once again: redistricting season is upon us. The Republican legislature just passed a new set of district maps that are drawn to further their partisan advantage. Governor Tony Evers has vowed to veto them. Meanwhile, voters have consistently shown they want maps drawn by non-partisan groups and remove politicians from the process.
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Opponents of Wisconsin redistricting plans that would keep solid GOP majorities in place for another decade railed against the proposals Thursday, promising to fight the maps in the Legislature and beyond.
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Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature released their redistricting plans on Wednesday, maps that were immediately blasted as “rigged” because they are based largely on existing districts the GOP drew a decade ago that solidified their majorities.
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At every level of government the redistricting process isn’t easy. The creation of new maps can have a huge impact on who will lead our county, state, and country for the next decade.
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Gov. Tony Evers said Tuesday it’s unlikely he would sign into law any maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature that are based on the current ones, boundary lines that solidified GOP majorities over the past decade.
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Republican state lawmakers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a redistricting lawsuit that Democrats brought, which asks a federal court to draw the political boundaries in Wisconsin for the next decade. The request came after the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to directly take a redistricting case brought by a conservative group.
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Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a redistricting lawsuit brought by Democratsthat asks a federal court to draw political boundary lines in the battleground state.
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A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear a redistricting lawsuit supported by the Republican-controlled Legislature, a move that comes as a Democratic-backed lawsuit progresses in federal court.
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The battle over drawing new political boundary lines in Wisconsin is heating up. A panel of three federal judges told the Legislature and Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday that it wants to have new maps enacted by March and it needs to prepare to have the court draw those maps if Republican lawmakers and the Democratic governor can’t agree.
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A Marquette University politics professor weighs in on the myriad of lawsuits over Wisconsin's redistricting, from both the left and the right.