Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Democratic challenge to congressional redistricting
The decision has ramifications this year for congressional elections in the battleground state, where Republicans make up a majority of its representatives in the House.
In a win for Republicans, the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid by Democrats to revisit the state's congressional maps that were signed into law last month.
The brief order did not lay out the reasoning of the court's majority, nor did it specify the position of each of the seven members.
The decision has ramifications for this year's congressional elections in the swing state, where Republicans hold six of Wisconsin's eight seats in the House.
Democrats had previously argued that the state’s high court should solicit “from the parties new congressional map proposals that comply with Wisconsin law.”
“Granting such relief will fulfill this Court’s constitutional duty to independently adjudicate the validity of Wisconsin’s congressional maps; failing to act will double down on a now-discredited legal principle and subject Wisconsin voters to a full decade under congressional maps that lack any basis in Wisconsin law,” the filing from earlier this year said.
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