Pivotal Moment for Democrats? Gerrymandering Heads to Supreme Court

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9. Gov Walker and the AG are appealing this decision....

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UPDATE November 21, 2016: WE WIN! The Court declared the Wisconsin legislative district map unconstitutional. You can see the order in the Documents section and our press release in the Newsroom section!

Note: The case name changed from "Whitford v Nichol" to "Whitford v Gill" when the leadership of the state's election authority transferred earlier in 2016.

Earlier update: The federal three-judge panel in Wisconsin's Western District ruled unanimously -- twice -- in Whitford v Nichol to continue the case to trial, denying the state's motions for dismissal and summary judgement and preventing the defendants from short-circuiting the case. This is the first partisan gerrymandering case to survive a motion to dismiss in almost 30 years, and the trial began on Tuesday, May 24. Visit facebook.com/wifairelections and twitter.com/wifairelections for updates in real time.

"Wisconsin is the most extreme partisan gerrymander in the United States in the post-2010 cycle," said attorney Gerry Hebert, who's the executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center. "It's about as far out from what you would consider to be fair as you can imagine." (Wisconsin Public Radio, May 24, 2016)

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