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

[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.