Wisconsin Supreme Court Hears Challenges to Congressional Maps

Wisconsin Supreme Court hears challenges to congressional maps

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in two cases challenging the constitutionality of the state’s congressional maps. One challenge is based on the claim that the maps unfairly benefit Republicans and the other is on the grounds…

Wisconsin Supreme Court signals openness to congressional map challenges

The high court’s review comes after a pair of lower court panels dismissed both petitions earlier this year.

Wisconsin Supreme Court arguments

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be hearing arguments tomorrow in two congressional redistricting cases, one alleging separation-of-powers and partisan-gerrymandering violations, the other raising an anticompetitive gerrymandering claim. You can find the briefs in the latter case here; I’ll be… Continue reading The post Wisconsin Supreme Court arguments appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Safe Seats Or Rigged Maps? Wisconsin Supreme Court To Weigh In On Congressional Lines

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the state’s congressional district lines. The lawsuit, Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, was filed by the advocacy group Law Forward and Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic on behalf […] Safe Seats Or Rigged Maps? Wisconsin Supreme Court To Weigh In On Congressional…

Justices plan to take up electoral maps

A pair of lawsuits asserting that Wisconsin's congressional maps are unconstitutional and must be redrawn are set to come before the Wisconsin Supreme Court for oral arguments on Wednesday.

Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear congressional map arguments

State Supreme Court justices will hear arguments this week in two lawsuits claiming Wisconsin’s eight U.S. House districts are gerrymandered and must be redrawn.