Wisconsin: Costs, number of deleted files pile up in redistricting case

[ewagner]

1. So what happens next?

It appears that there was massive "fraud, misrepresentations, or misconduct" leading up to the trial....

do we get a new trial?

I was on a local redistricting committee and we played it "straight" by the laws in our county effort...I'm not sure what, if any, laws were violated by allowing a private law firm to "assist" (read: tailor districts to their client's specifications) because it was still the legislature that determined the final plan and...

here's the bad part...

the law says that any redistricting is okay as long as it didn't segregate persons on the basis of race or similar protected traits. There doesn't appear to be any restriction against redistricting on the basis of past voting habits...in other words, they were at least TECHNICALLY legal.

My fondest dream is that the courts will find some reason to overturn this last redistricting and the courts themselves will redistrict before 2014....but I fear its only a dream