United States Supreme Court reverses decision on Wisconsin legislative maps
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Source: WBAY
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WBAY) - The United States Supreme Court has reversed the Wisconsin Supreme Courts judgment regarding legislative maps backed by Gov. Tony Evers.
The case was remanded for further proceedings.
On remand, the court is free to take additional evidence if it prefers to reconsider the Governors maps rather than choose from among the other submissions. Any new analysis, however, must comply with our equal protection jurisprudence, reads the majority opinion.
The redistricting maps created an additional majority-Black district in Wisconsin, saying it was necessary to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
Read more: https://www.wbay.com/2022/03/23/united-states-supreme-court-reverses-decision-wisconsin-legislative-maps/
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DURHAM D
(32,875 posts)I HATE ALL REPUBLICANS.
Dawson Leery
(19,388 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(19,023 posts)Sounds like Evers can resubmit with additional evidence for VRA justification?
oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So it's a mixed bag.
BumRushDaShow
(146,733 posts)By Adam Liptak
March 23, 2022, 1:09 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court sided with Wisconsins Republican-led Legislature on Wednesday in a dispute over competing voting maps for the states legislative districts. The justices unsigned order reversed a ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court that had selected the map drawn by Gov. Tony Evers over other proposals, and it sent the case back to the state court for a new look. The majority said the state court had not considered carefully enough whether the Voting Rights Act, a federal law that protects minority voting power, required the addition of a seventh assembly district in which Black voters made up a majority.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, dissented, saying that the courts action today is unprecedented. She added that the court today faults the State Supreme Court for its failure to comply with an obligation that, under existing precedent, is hazy at best. In an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for the Legislature and four voters called the governors map a 21st-century racial gerrymander, focusing on the fact that it increased the number of State Assembly districts around Milwaukee in which Black voters made up a majority to seven from six. The Legislatures map dropped the number to five.
They argued that maximization of majority-minority districts in a redistricting plan was unconstitutional, noting that the seven districts in the governors plan all had bare majorities of Black voters. Justice Brian Hagedorn, writing for the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Courts 4-to-3 decision, indicated that the question was in some ways a close one.
We cannot say for certain on this record, he wrote, that seven majority-Black assembly districts are required by the Voting Rights Act. But based on our assessment of the totality of the circumstances and given the discretion afforded states implementing the act, we conclude the governors configuration is permissible.But Justice Hagedorn added that a map with fewer majority-Black districts could impermissibly pack Black voters into some districts, diluting their power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/supreme-court-wisconsin-redistricting.html
Sen. Klobachar is literally mentioning this RIGHT NOW during the confirmation hearing for Judge. Brown-Jackson talking about "shadow doctrine" and Sotomayor's dissent about this use.

KPN
(16,333 posts)own unethically, politically packed conservative SCOTUS majority steps into State supreme court business to make political decisions like this. The current SCOTUS is so friggin inconsistent when it comes to legal rigor and rationale.
Native
(6,847 posts)The justices turned away a Republican bid to block the map drafted by Evers and approved by the Wisconsin Supreme Court setting boundaries for the state's eight U.S. House districts after the governor vetoed one made by the Republican-controlled legislature he deemed unfairly skewed against Democrats. The emergency request to the justices was made by five Republican U.S. House members.
The court also granted a Republican request seeking to block new maps for Wisconsin's state legislature, with two liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissenting. The court sent that case back to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and ordered it to adopt new maps laying out the various districts.
Wisconsin party primary elections are scheduled for Aug. 9, with the general election on Nov. 8. At the national level, Republicans are seeking to erase the slim majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress held by Biden's fellow Democrats.
Xoan
(25,477 posts)When unsigned documents are considered legit.
llashram
(6,269 posts)African-American voter here in the USSC no less. This fear will become normalized and the AA voter adjudicated out of the voting system by the hateful racist USSC. RW extremism at its most ugliest. 4 years of a hateful, vicious individual posing as POTUS. DAMN!!!
JudyM
(29,537 posts)Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142892669
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