{"id":8763,"date":"2024-02-02T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2024-02-02T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:00:41","slug":"will-statement-on-latest-redistricting-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8763","title":{"rendered":"WILL Statement on Latest Redistricting Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-statement-on-latest-redistricting-report\/\">https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-statement-on-latest-redistricting-report\/<\/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_3_4 et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\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 class=\"elementToProof\">The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL) has released the following statement on the recent report filed by consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to assess to new legislative maps:<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\u201cThe report hides its bias behind a fog of faux sophistication. \u00a0Let\u2019s be clear, our maps have been rejected for one reason and one reason alone, they don\u2019t produce the partisan outcomes the experts or many on the Court want. So, they ignore all the traditional tests to distinguish partisan bias from political geography. It is what Chief Justice Roberts has called social science gobbledygook: Obfuscation that hides one\u2019s preferences so that it needn\u2019t be justified.\u201d \u2013\u00a0WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_4 et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_team_member et_pb_team_member_0 clearfix  et_pb_text_align_center et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Rick-Photo.jpeg\" alt=\"Rick Esenberg\" class=\"wp-image-11260\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\">\n<h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Rick Esenberg<\/h4>\n<p class=\"et_pb_member_position\">President and General Counsel<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>rick@will-law.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"et_pb_member_social_links\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickesenberg\" class=\"et_pb_font_icon et_pb_twitter_icon\"><span>X<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-statement-on-latest-redistricting-report\/\">WILL Statement on Latest Redistricting Report<\/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-statement-on-latest-redistricting-report\/ The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL) has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8763","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\/8763","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=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}