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Speaker Robin Vos thinks he's clever with bill to adopt Iowa-model approach for electoral maps. He's not worthy to call a wolf in sheep's clothing.

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Assembly has voted to change how the state’s legislative maps are drawn – a major shift in strategy as Republicans face the possibility that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court could throw out the current electoral maps, which give the GOP an advantage.

Vos and Assembly Republicans unveiled legislation allowing the Legislative Reference Bureau to write new legislative maps.

Republicans in Wisconsin are coalescing around the prospect of impeaching a newly seated liberal justice on the state’s Supreme Court, whose victory in a costly, high-stakes election this spring swung the court in Democrats’ favor and threatened the GOP’s iron grip on state politics. The push, just five weeks after Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined the court and before she has heard a single case, serves as a last-ditch effort to stop the new 4-3 liberal majority from throwi...

"I'm not saying it's definitely happening. But we have to take a look at it," Wisconsin GOP state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said last month.

Wisconsin GOP couldn't beat Janet Protasiewicz at the polls — now they want to impeach her to save gerrymander

After her blowout victory secured the court’s liberal majority, GOP officials want her off the bench

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office rejected petition language Wednesday for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state's troubled system for drawing political maps, determining that it failed to present a fair and truthful summary of what is proposed. The group Citizens Not Politicians, which includes two former Ohio Supreme Court justices, aims to place the proposal on next year's fall ballot. Spokesman Chris Davey said rejections are not unusual in a proposed ame...

The lawsuit would come one day after Wisconsin's Supreme Court flipped to liberal control with the swearing in of Janet Protasiewicz.

MADISON, Wis. — A coalition of legal groups, including Madison-based liberal firm Law Forward, is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the states legislative district maps, which they