The court overturned after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that Evers’ maps had been mishandled and it was time for candidates to start running to appear on this year’s ballot without being sure of the boundaries of the constituencies. Democrats would have made marginal gains under the Evers plan, but Republicans were projected to retain a majority in the Assembly and Senate, according to an analysis by the governor’s office. The map of Evers has created seven neighborhoods in the state of Blacks in Milwaukee, out of the current six. The map from the Republican-controlled Legislature was just five. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin had adopted the Evers Charter on March 3, but the US Supreme Court overturned it on March 23. The Supreme Court ruled that the Evers Charter failed to consider whether a “racially neutral alternative that did not add a seventh majority – the black district would deprive black voters of equal political opportunities.” Evers told the state Supreme Court that he could adopt his charter with some additional analysis or an alternative to six black-majority districts. The Republican-controlled Legislature has argued that its charter should be implemented. The Wisconsin court, which is controlled 4-3 by the Conservatives, sided with the Legislature. “The maps proposed by the Governor… are racist and, according to the Equal Protection Clause, fail to be strictly scrutinized,” Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler wrote for the majority, along with Judges Patience Roggensack, Rebecca Gragedl Brad . The charters of the Legislature, they wrote, “are racially neutral” and “comply with the Equal Protection Clause, along with all other federal and state legal requirements.” Hageddorn, a conservative judge, initially backed Evers’ plan, but reversed it as soon as the matter returned to court. In a separate coincidence, he wrote that the US Supreme Court ruling required the state court to adopt a racially neutral charter and that Legislative maps “are the only legally compliant maps we have received.” The three liberal court judges – Jill Karofsky, Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Dallet – disagreed. Karowski, writing about the minority, said that the maps of the Legislature “are not better than those of the Governor according to the reasoning of the US Supreme Court”. “If, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, the addition by the Governor of a majority-minority constituency in the Milwaukee area implies a racial exclusion, then the removal from the legislature of a majority-minority constituency in the Milwaukee area “It reveals an equally suspicious, if not more outrageous, line-drawing mark based on the fight,” Karowski wrote. Assembly President Robin Boss praised the decision on Twitter, saying Republicans “believed our maps were the best choice from the beginning.” Evers called the ruling “outrageous” and said the court had reversed an earlier finding that legislative maps had illegally collected black voters to reduce their electoral power. “At a time when our democracy is under almost constant attack, the judiciary has abandoned our democracy at our most difficult time,” Evers said. Republicans have a 61-38 majority in the Assembly and a 21-12 advantage in the Senate. Even according to the GOP charter initially rejected by the state court, they were not expected to win an overwhelming majority that could overturn any Evers veto. The US Supreme Court ruling in the Wisconsin case marked the first time this redistribution cycle overturned maps drawn by a state. The court has pointed out that it can significantly change the basic rules governing redistribution. The court’s involvement comes after it ruled in 2019 that federal courts have no role to play in curbing party aggression. In February, a decision by a federal panel of judges called on Alabama to redesign its maps to give blacks a better chance of choosing their representatives, saying it might need to review the long-standing case law. It is this case law that the Supreme Court referred to in the Wisconsin ruling. The court refused to block maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. But four Conservative judges have written that they want to rule on the new legal theory that state legislatures rather than state courts have supreme power in mapping. While the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Wisconsin legislative charters, it adopted congressional charters as proposed by Evers. Republicans now hold five of the state’s eight seats. This map has made one of these areas of the GOP more competitive. Redistribution is the process of redefining political boundaries based on the latest inventory. Map makers can create an advantage for their political party by piling up opposition voters in some constituencies or spreading them across multiple constituencies – a process known as gerrymandering.
