{"id":2133283,"date":"2023-12-25T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-laments-decision-to-redraw-maps-as-trampling-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2023-12-25T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:52:28","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-laments-decision-to-redraw-maps-as-trampling-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-laments-decision-to-redraw-maps-as-trampling-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"WI Supreme Court justice criticizes redrawing of maps as &#8216;law trampling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-supreme-court-justice-laments-decision-to-redraw-maps-as-trampling-the-rule-of-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2133283&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Conservative Judges in Wisconsin Criticize Redrawing of Congressional Map<\/h2>\n<p>Conservative \u200bjudges in Wisconsin are\u200b expressing \u2062their disappointment with the state Supreme\u2064 Court&#8217;s decision to redraw\u200c the congressional map. They \u200daccuse their liberal counterparts of \u2063favoring Democrats in \u2062the upcoming 2024 elections by overturning the current boundaries.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversial Ruling Sparks Political Debate<\/h3>\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court,\u2063 in a 4-3 vote along ideological lines, \u2063declared that the \u200cRepublican-submitted \u200dmaps violated the state&#8217;s constitution. As a \u2062result, they ordered the lines\u200c to be\u2064 redrawn before the 2024 primary elections. This decision has drawn criticism from conservatives who believe the justices are politically \u2063motivated to secure victories\u200b for Democrats, potentially influencing the outcome of the presidential election.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;With its first opinion as an openly progressive faction, the members \u200cof the \u200bmajority shed\u2063 their robes, usurp the prerogatives of \u200bthe legislature, and deliver the spoils to their preferred political party,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote in her dissent. &#8220;These handmaidens of the Democratic Party trample the \u2063rule of law,\u200c dishonor the institution of the judiciary, and undermine democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The court&#8217;s ruling highlighted that a significant number of\u200b Assembly and Senate districts violated the state constitution&#8217;s requirement of &#8220;contiguous territory.&#8221; These districts included portions of land that were not physically connected to other parts of the same district.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives argue that similar contiguity gaps have existed in the state&#8217;s congressional maps for the past five\u200c decades, regardless of \u200dwhich political party drew them. They also point to the court&#8217;s 2022 decision, which upheld the current district lines as constitutional, suggesting that the matter of redistricting had already been settled.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The matter of legislative redistricting was thoroughly litigated and resolved after the 2020 census,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote in his dissent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The recent ruling necessitates the creation of \u2062a new proposed map in\u200c the spring, which must be approved before the\u200b state&#8217;s primary elections in August. If \u2064lawmakers and Governor Tony Evers cannot\u200d reach an agreement, the court will be responsible for implementing its own map. This potential outcome could give Democrats\u200d a significant \u2064advantage, especially since they recently gained control of the state Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Republicans hold seven out \u200dof the\u2064 state&#8217;s ten congressional districts, and they control both chambers of\u2062 the state legislature. However, if \u200bthe state Supreme Court successfully passes a map favorable to Democrats next year, it could have \u2064far-reaching implications for power dynamics not \u2062only in Wisconsin but also in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative judges in Wisconsin are unhappy with the state Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling to redraw the congressional map. They claim liberal judges are favoring Democrats in the 2024 elections. The court voted 4-3 along ideological lines, deeming the Republican-submitted maps unconstitutional and ordering a redraw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2133284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2133284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}