{"id":5727,"date":"2023-09-20T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:58:20","slug":"wisconsin-state-senator-left-wing-activists-seek-to-disenfranchise-1-million-plus-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5727","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin State Senator: Left-Wing Activists Seek to Disenfranchise 1 Million-Plus Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-state-senator-left-wing-activists-seek-to-disenfranchise-1-million-plus-voters\/mkittle\/2023\/09\/20\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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While Democrats routinely accuse election integrity advocates of disenfranchising voters, leftist lawfare practitioners in the battleground Badger State could disenfranchise more than a million voters, according to State Senator Duey Stroebel (pictured above).<\/p>\n

The Saukville Republican called it a \u201cpreposterous attack on democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attorneys for Law Forward,<\/a> a Madison-based coalition of left-leaning law firms and advocacy groups, have sued to overturn Wisconsin\u2019s legislative maps. The state redistricting plan, passed by the Republican-led Legislature, has survived Democratic Party challenges of \u201cextreme gerrymandering.\u201d<\/p>\n

But on August 1, the Wisconsin Supreme Court turned from a conservative to a liberal majority after far-left Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz beat conservative former Justice Dan Kelly in last spring\u2019s election. For the first time in 15 years, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is controlled by liberals, 4-3.<\/p>\n

One day later, Law Forward filed a redistricting lawsuit<\/a> with the newly minted liberal-led court.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit asks the court to declare the state Assembly and Senate maps unconstitutional and, ultimately, order 17 State Senate elections in 2022 null and void, forcing a re-vote in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are trying to get fair maps for the 2024 election, all of the Assembly districts are already up, and half of the Senate districts will be up for election in 2024\u2026,\u201d Jeffery Mandell, co-founder and president of Law Forward, told reporters during a virtual briefing <\/a>last month.<\/p>\n

The same well-heeled coalition of attorneys is leading a legal effort<\/a> in the Left\u2019s bid to silence any attempt by conservatives to impeach Protasiewicz if she does not recuse herself from the redistricting lawsuit. While campaigning for the Supreme Court seat, Protasiewicz made bias-exposing comments, declaring that the current maps are \u201crigged.\u201d Her campaign also took $10 million from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin in what proved to be the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do not reflect people in this state. I don\u2019t think you could sell any reasonable person that the maps are fair,\u201d Protasiewicz said of the legislative maps at a forum<\/a> in January. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you what I would do on a particular case, but I can tell you my values, and the maps are wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the fairness question, the U.S. Supreme Court last year declared unconstitutional a redistricting plan produced behind closed doors by liberal Governor Tony Evers. The high court found that Evers\u2019 self-proclaimed \u201cfair\u201d maps contained racial gerrymandering.<\/p>\n

Republicans challenged the liberal governor\u2019s maps after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in favor of them, claiming the plan most followed the court\u2019s \u201cleast change\u201d requirement.<\/p>\n

Evers\u2019 plan created an illegal seventh black-majority district, opposed by some black representatives of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e have held that if race is the predominant factor motivating the placement of voters in or out of a particular district, the State bears the burden of showing that the design of that district withstands strict scrutiny,\u201d the U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion declared. The plan, suffice to say, did not withstand strict scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Now, Stroebel said, Democrats and their left-wing activist allies are hoping to overturn the 2022 election that gave Republicans a supermajority in the Senate and disenfranchise more than 1 million votes cast.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, after input from the Supreme Court of the United States, affirmed the validity of Wisconsin\u2019s legislative maps. The redistricting lawsuit presents almost no new arguments. This lawsuit is simply a ploy by the left to upend the democratic process,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n

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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
\nPhoto \u201cSenator Duey Stroebel\u201d by Senator Duey Stroebe<\/a>l. Background Photo \u201cVoting Booths\u201d by Tim Evanson<\/a>. CC BY-SA 2.0.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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