On Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the legislature must draw new maps for the state after the old ones were found to violate the law. The decision wasn’t necessarily a surprise given recent Republican losses have left the court dominated by liberals, but what exactly does it mean for 2024?
That’s up for debate, but it didn’t take the mainstream press long to take a victory lap. The New York Times described the old maps as “heavily gerrymandered,” a phrase that never gets applied to the laughable maps in places like Maryland, Illinois, and California.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court said on Friday that the state’s heavily gerrymandered legislative maps that favor Republicans are unconstitutional. It ordered new maps before the 2024 election in a ruling that could produce a seismic political shift in a crucial presidential swing state.
Justice Jill J. Karofsky, writing…
