Voting rights groups and law firms have filed a legal challenge against Wisconsin's legislative maps, arguing that they are unconstitutional due to 'extreme partisan gerrymandering.'
Jeff Mandell, a partner at Stafford Rosenbaum and board president of Law Forward, said Wednesday that “in the past 12 years, one political party captured the Legislature and has insulated itself from being answerable to the voters.”
“We have endured 12 years of rule by right-wing interests,” Mandell added, “and the voters of Wisconsin deserve fair representation.”last year, the Wisconsin Supreme Court implemented Republican-drawn voting maps that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed in late 2021. Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature tried and failed to override the governor’s veto.
The petition notes that the maps “did precisely what Republicans hoped” in 2022, “increasing their majority to 64 assembly seats and 22 senate seats .” The plaintiffs ask that the state’s current legislative maps be redrawn and call for special elections for state Senate seats that would otherwise not be up for reelection until 2026. If the lawsuit succeeds, state Assembly races would also be held under newly drawn maps.
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