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Redrawing Wisconsin's Congressional Maps
A new report says there’s no reason to redraw Wisconsin’s political maps.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Monday released a memo that says the state’s current Congressional maps are constitutional.
“While it is certainly a possibility that the Wisconsin Supreme Court will again be asked to re-draw Wisconsin’s congressional district maps before the next census, it is clear that such a legal challenge would have to overcome a number of significant hurdles,” WILL wrote in its memo.
The memo explains that the congressional maps are in focus because of Wisconsin’s recent Supreme Court election.
"Some partisan Democrats are now openly calling for the Court to redraw those Congressional district lines," the memo added.
Specifically, WILL said the current liberal-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to change the maps just last year. And secondly, the maps are just three-years-old, and were drafted by Gov. Tony Evers.
"Three of the justices who adopted the Governor’s maps as Wisconsin’s congressional district maps are still on the Court and would need to not only reverse their initial decision from 2022, but also to reverse their decision to decline to reopen the case just last year," WILL wrote in the memo. "[And] second, there is not an obvious basis for reopening the case."
WILL also makes the case that undoing the congressional maps in Wisconsin would violate the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, in Moore v. Harper, that says state courts “may not so exceed the bounds of ordinary judicial review as to unconstitutionally intrude upon the role specifically reserved to state legislatures.”
“Any effort by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the Governor Evers map it adopted just three years ago (and declined to revisit just last year), would almost certainly fall within what the United States Supreme Court’s warned state courts could not do,” WILL’s memo warned.
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