{"id":7902,"date":"2023-12-22T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7902"},"modified":"2023-12-22T23:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:03:59","slug":"will-releases-statement-on-redistricting-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7902","title":{"rendered":"Will Releases Statement on Redistricting Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-releases-statement-on-redistricting-ruling\/\">https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-releases-statement-on-redistricting-ruling\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>The News:<\/strong> The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL) has released a statement condemning a new ruling from the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in favor of a lawsuit seeking to change Wisconsin\u2019s Legislative Districts. WILL sees this lawsuit as an attempt to relitigate issues resolved just a year and a half ago \u2013 utilizing a new \u2018left of center\u2019 majority on the state\u2019s highest Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The Quotes:<\/strong> Rick Esenberg, WILL President and General Counsel, stated, \u201cPetitioners used a trojan horse \u2013 municipal islands that have existed for decades, affect very few voters and could not be the cause of any alleged partisan bias, to upend maps that the Court approved in 2022. We now face a truncated process in which the parties must submit new maps and comment on those submitted by others and address an undefined standard called \u2018partisan fairness.\u2019 This is an unusual episode but WILL will strive to ensure that whatever emerges from the process will both comport with the law and Wisconsin\u2019s political geography, as the Constitution requires, rather than a gerrymander for a partisan outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>WILL\u2019s Efforts Protecting Lawful Redistricting:\u00a0<\/strong>Although the issues surrounding decennial redistricting were resolved by the Wisconsin Supreme Court just a year and a half ago, Petitioners sought to re-litigate that case. They asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to declare the current maps unconstitutional, draw new maps from scratch. The court has now agreed to do just that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>WILL intervened on behalf of voters from multiple state senate districts who would see their vote disenfranchised if the Court grants the remedy sought by the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>WILL has been on the forefront of litigation regarding\u00a0legislative boundaries in Wisconsin. In August of 2021, WILL filed an original action in Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to update the legislative districts to address population changes, given that the Legislature and Governor were unable to agree on new maps. WILL successfully argued that the Wisconsin Supreme Court should make the \u201cleast changes\u201d possible to update the maps, to prevent the Court from getting embroiled in partisan considerations. And, when maps proposed by Governor Evers violated the\u00a0federal law, we successfully petitioned to the Supreme Court of the United States.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-releases-statement-on-redistricting-ruling\/\">Will Releases Statement on Redistricting Ruling<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\">Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-releases-statement-on-redistricting-ruling\/ The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7903,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions\/7903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}