WI: Legal wrangling in one challenge to congressional map could bar appeal in second suit
Those who challenged the state’s congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander have filed notice they plan to appeal the ruling to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the parties in a challenge of the congressional map as an anti-competitive gerrymander are wrangling over the proper way to appeal a three-judge panel’s rejection of that lawsuit.
It’s the first time parties have used a 2011 GOP-authored law to challenge congressional districts. How the court decides that issue in the anti-competitive gerrymandering case could prevent the planned appeal over the partisan gerrymandering claims from moving forward.
That 2011 law directed the state Supreme Court to appoint panels of three circuit court judges to hear a map challenge. Separate panels in the two lawsuits earlier this year rejected the challenges. In both cases, the panels ruled a 2022 state Supreme Court decision barred them from considering cases that challenge districts based on their partisan composition.
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