{"id":9160,"date":"2024-02-22T21:04:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T22:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9160"},"modified":"2024-02-22T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T23:04:03","slug":"wisconsin-gop-congressmen-evers-drew-congressional-maps-he-wants-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9160","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin GOP Congressmen: Evers Drew Congressional Maps He Wants Struck Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-gop-congressmen-evers-drew-congressional-maps-he-wants-struck-down\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-gop-congressmen-evers-drew-congressional-maps-he-wants-struck-down\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/evers-maps-commission.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Evers Drew Congressional Maps Eric Wimberger Republican\u2019s Second Tax Cut evers vetoes evers budget\" title=\"Evers Drew Congressional Maps\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Some of Wisconsin\u2019s Republican congressmen say there is a problem with Gov. Tony Evers\u2019 latest problems with the state\u2019s political maps.<\/p>\n<p>Evers this week asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take a look at the state\u2019s congressional maps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MONDAY: I signed fair maps for Wisconsin\u2019s Legislature,&#8221; Evers tweeted Wednesday. &#8220;NEXT UP: fair maps for our congressional districts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The liberal law firm The Elias Group has already asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider the state\u2019s congressional maps, just like the court reconsidered the state\u2019s legislative maps.<\/p>\n<p>The high court tossed those state maps back in December. But Wisconsin lawmakers ended the court\u2019s review and replacement by passing Evers\u2019 preferred maps for Assembly and Senate districts.<\/p>\n<p>Western Wisconsin Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden on Wednesday pointed out the Congressional maps are also Evers\u2019 own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe maps are a 100% product of the Dems,\u201d Van Orden said in a tweet. \u201cEvers drew them. Zero Republicans voted for them. Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled them constitutional. US Supreme Court ruled them constitutional. This is a naked power Dem grab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WOW County Republican Congressman Scott Fitzgerald said the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to remind <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovEvers\">@GovEvers<\/a> that he is asking the State Supreme Court to review the Congressional maps HE drew,\u201d Fitzgerald said in a tweet. \u201cThe map he is now seeking to overturn was drafted by Evers and based off a 2011 bipartisan map, approved by the liberals on the state Supreme Court and survived a challenge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evers said reviewing the Congressional maps is part of his effort to \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to end gerrymandering in Wisconsin at every level, so I\u2019m asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to review our congressional maps to make sure those are fair, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court has not yet said what it plans to do with the challenge to the congressional maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-gop-congressmen-evers-drew-congressional-maps-he-wants-struck-down\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Some of Wisconsin\u2019s Republican congressmen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9160","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\/9160","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9162,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions\/9162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}