Wisconsin redistricting experts tell Supreme Court Republican map proposals are gerrymanders
Wisconsin redistricting experts tell Supreme Court Republican map proposals are gerrymanders
- February 1, 2024
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, Associated Press, ABC News, CBS News, Feb. 1, 2024
Consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to examine maps redrawing state legislative districts said Thursday that plans submitted by the Republican Legislature and a conservative law firm are partisan gerrymanders, but they stopped short of declaring the other four maps constitutional. Only the court can make the determination of whether any of those four plans from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, Democratic lawmakers and others are constitutional, wrote Jonathan Cervas, of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Bernard Grofman, of the University of California, Irvine.
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