Two votes in the Wisconsin Capitol Thursday demonstrate Republicans' controversial efforts to shape election rules in the battleground state going into the 2024 election cycle.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, who is being targeted for possible impeachment by Republican lawmakers, attends her first hearing as a justice on Sept. 7.
Liberals heralded Protasiewicz's election as an opportunity to challenge those maps, and progressive groups quickly filed suit. However, if Republicans impeach Protasiewicz in the Assembly and then simply don't hold a vote in the Senate, she would be held from the bench indefinitely.Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos talks to the media on Feb. 15, 2022. The Republican has proposed a nonpartisan redistricting plan to preempt the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court from tossing the current GOP-drawn maps.
"There will be no need to have the whole discussion about recusal and millions of dollars of attack ads and special interest trying to buy the election and all the things that we know are coming" if his bill is passed, he said.
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