Redistricting fight shifts to Wisconsin, where judicial panels may pick new maps

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Dec. 12, 2025, 5:00 AM EST / Updated Dec. 12, 2025, 4:46 PM EST


Wisconsin has quietly emerged as the latest front in the national redistricting fight — and a never-before-used legal process seems likely to determine the state's congressional lines in the midterm election.

The saga unfolding in the critical Midwestern battleground has the potential to put more districts in play for Democrats ahead of next year’s midterms. But unlike in other states that have redrawn their congressional maps mid-decade in recent months, the push toward a new map in Wisconsin is now hinging on a little-known law the GOP-controlled state Legislature enacted 14 years ago.

Days before Thanksgiving, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered a pair of three-judge panels to oversee two lawsuits that allege that the state’s current congressional map is unconstitutional and seek a redraw. Both panels met for the first time Friday for initial hearings.

And Friday's opening moves were only the latest steps in a long, complex path.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/redistricting-fight-shifts-wisconsin-judicial-panels-may-pick-new-maps-rcna248281

[Deminpenn]

1. The GOP certainly is irony-challenged

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The R-controlled legislature passed a law to require these judicial panels that was then signed by then R Gov Scott Walker in 2011. Now they are complaining about it.

I'm guessing the Rs never thought this law would ever apply to them, just to Dem efforts to un-gerrymander the state.

We had a similar scenario play out in PA after a years long lawsuit that our CDs violated the Commonwealth's constitutional requirement not to split municipalities and to be compact. That ultimately led to the state supreme court drawing the map itself in 2018 after the R-controlled legislature and D Gov Wolf couldn't come to an agreement on a new map compliant with our constitution.

I'm sure Wisconsin will end up with a fair map just as we have now. It will only "favor" Dems because it's been so heavily gerrymandered and designed to elect Rs.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. AND

like what happened here in PA, when the (R)s go running to the SCOTUS to help them, the SCOTUS *must* and *has* waved them away, because "elections are handled by the states".

[A Badger]

3. On !

Wisconsin.