{"id":4631,"date":"2023-08-02T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2023-08-02T19:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:01:28","slug":"democrats-file-petition-protesting-rigged-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4631","title":{"rendered":"Democrats File Petition Protesting \u201cRigged\u201d Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/08\/02\/democrats-file-petition-protesting-rigged-maps\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democrats-file-petition-protesting-rigged-maps\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/08\/02\/democrats-file-petition-protesting-rigged-maps\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democrats-file-petition-protesting-rigged-maps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localsyr.com\/news\/national\/ap-wisconsin-lawsuit-asks-new-liberal-controlled-supreme-court-to-toss-republican-drawn-maps\/\">And so it begins<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>They better be careful. One can be prosecuted by the DOJ for saying that you think the electoral process is unfair or manipulated.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A lawsuit filed Wednesday asks Wisconsin\u2019s newly liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to throw out Republican-drawn legislative maps as unconstitutional, the latest legal challenge of many nationwide that could upset political boundary lines before the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>The long-promised action is backed by Democrats and was filed by a coalition of law firms and voting rights advocacy groups. It comes the day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court flipped from a conservative to liberal majority, with the start of the term of a justice who said that the Republican maps were \u201crigged\u201d and should be reviewed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/08\/02\/democrats-file-petition-protesting-rigged-maps\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=democrats-file-petition-protesting-rigged-maps And so it begins\u2026 They better be careful. One&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions\/4632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}