{"id":6306,"date":"2023-10-12T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2023-10-12T04:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T04:03:56","slug":"wisconsin-institute-for-law-liberty-asks-to-join-redistricting-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6306","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty Asks to Join Redistricting Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-redistricting-lawsuit\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wisconsin<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Wednesday filed a motion to intervene in the pending lawsuit over Wisconsin\u2019s electoral maps.<\/p>\n

WILL president and general counsel Rick Esenberg said overturning the current maps would deny voters rightful representation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake no mistake, this is a political assault on democracy. The petitioners want the Court to \u2018discover\u2019 that our Constitution suddenly prohibits longstanding practices and seeks maps they believe will favor their preferred candidates. Courts should not insert themselves into partisan controversies,\u201d Esenberg said.<\/p>\n

WILL\u2019s request to join the case comes after Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday filed his own motion to intervene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWisconsinites deserve fair maps \u2013 not the gerrymandered maps we have now that I already vetoed two years ago \u2013 and I will not stop fighting until we have a fair, independent, and nonpartisan redistricting process that ensures the people get to choose their elected officials in this state,\u201d the governor said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A number of liberal\u00a0 groups have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to redraw the state\u2019s current electoral maps. Legal filings in that case are due next week<\/strong><\/a>, and the high court has scheduled oral arguments for next month.<\/p>\n

Evers says the current maps have elected officials picking voters, as opposed to voters picking elected officials.<\/p>\n

WILL\u2019s Luke Berg says the request to draw new maps is simply an attempt to get around the Republican-controlled legislature.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis lawsuit is a transparent attempt to use the new Wisconsin Supreme Court majority to reshape Wisconsin\u2019s political landscape. The claims raised in the lawsuit are meritless. WILL stands ready to defend Wisconsin\u2019s voters from this attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin Supreme Court last week said it would take up the redistricting case to answer questions about whether Wisconsin\u2019s legislative districts are contiguous and whether there\u00a0 is a separation of power concern with the maps.<\/p>\n

In addition to drawing new maps, the case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court could mean a new election<\/strong><\/a> for more than a dozen state senators who were elected two years ago. WILL said that part of the case would unconstitutionally disenfranchise voters across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-redistricting-lawsuit\/ The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Wednesday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6309,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions\/6309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}