Wisconsin
Wisconsin redistricting: Republican-drawn maps picked by SCOWIS
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Supreme Court docket on Friday, April 15 adopted Republican-drawn legislative maps after initially selecting maps from Democratic Gov Tony Evers.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court docket on Friday adopted Republican-drawn maps for the state Legislature, after initially approving maps drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
The courtroom reversed itself after the U.S. Supreme Court docket in March mentioned Evers’ maps have been incorrectly adopted.
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The choice from the state’s excessive courtroom got here the identical day candidates may begin circulating nomination papers to get on the poll. Earlier than the ruling, candidates didn’t know for sure in the event that they have been working within the appropriate district and potential signers wouldn’t know in the event that they lived within the candidate’s district and have been eligible to signal the shape.
The courtroom on March 3 adopted Evers’ legislative map, however the U.S. Supreme Court docket rejected it on March 23. That had left the state with out new state Senate and Meeting district boundaries.
District maps submitted by Gov. Tony Evers
Evers’ map created seven majority-Black state Meeting districts in Milwaukee, up from the present six. The map from the Republican-controlled Legislature had simply 5 districts.
The U.S. Supreme Court docket mentioned the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket, when it adopted Evers’ map, failed to contemplate whether or not a “race-neutral various that didn’t add a seventh majority-black district would deny black voters equal political alternative.”
Evers instructed the state Supreme Court docket it may nonetheless undertake his map with some further evaluation, or an alternate with six majority Black districts. The Republican-controlled Legislature argued that its map ought to be the one applied.
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