Newly ordered election maps reoutlining Wisconsin’s political boundaries could cause the advantages of the Wisconsin GOP to shrink ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled three weeks ago that the Republican-submitted maps were unconstitutional due to contiguous problems, which included parts of land that were disconnected. The high court ordered seven new legislative maps be submitted, the Associated Press reported.
“Everybody has understood that you’re allowed to keep a town together, even though its parts are disconnected,” Luke Berg, deputy counsel for the Wisconsin Justice Department, told the Washington Examiner last year ahead of the state’s Supreme Court hearing.
Consultants hired by the court will review the proposed maps and release a report on Feb. 1, the Associated Press reported.
The state’s GOP has spent 15 years dominating the state legislature, eventually going head-to-head with Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) on key policy measures.
The Dec. 22 ruling to establish new political boundaries by March 15 ahead of Wisconsin’s August primary follows the party’s Supreme Court upset last year, which kept former conservative Justice Daniel Kelly from being able to vote on the political maps after he lost to Democratic Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
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Maps submitted by Senate Democrats and their consultants would give Democrats a slight majority in the battleground state that could affect its role in the presidential election later this year.
“We’re a purple state, and our maps should reflect that basic fact,” Evers said in a statement. “I’ve always promised I’d fight for fair maps — not maps that favor one political party or another — and that’s a promise I’m proud to keep with the maps I’m submitting.”