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Gear up for new maps
Demonstrators gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, Wisconsin s gerrymandering case. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/Getty Images)
The conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns an emergency public health order in the middle of a pandemic even as new COVID cases rise. Writing for the majority, Justice Brian Hagedorn acknowledges that the virus is “dangerous” and has “taken far too many lives,” but the important issue, he writes bolstered by two separate amicus briefs from the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is that “the power to end and to refuse to extend a state of emergency resides with the legislature even when the underlying occurrence creating the emergency remains a threat.”
Op Ed: Wisconsin Needs Fair Maps
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Wisconsin Supreme Court focuses on redistricting
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2,000 Object to Redistricting Proposal
272 pages of comments compiled by Fair Maps Coalition oppose state Supreme Court drawing legislative districts. //end headline wrapper ?>Assembly Districts
Almost 2,000 additional comments opposing a proposal to give the Wisconsin Supreme Court power to draw state redistricting maps were made public in the days following the Nov. 30 comment deadline.
Negative comments came from representatives of Gov.
Tony Evers; a group of nine law professors; three election scholars; two former state senators; and 1,932 various Wisconsin residents – the last in a 712-page compilation of comments from the Fair Maps Coalition. All of the submissions can be found here.