Then the regular four-year cycle would resume again in 2026. In Senate districts that are midway through a four-year term in 2024, there would be a special election with the winner serving two years. The lawsuit asks that all 132 state lawmakers be up for election that year in newly drawn districts. “Despite the fact that our legislative branch is meant to be the most directly representative of the people, the gerrymandered maps have divided our communities, preventing fair representation,” said Jeff Mandell, board president of Law Forward, one of the groups that brought the lawsuit. It comes the day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court flipped from a conservative to a liberal majority, with the start of the term of a justice who said that the Republican maps were “rigged” and should be reviewed. The long-promised action is backed by Democrats and was filed by a coalition of law firms and voting rights advocacy groups. (AP) - A lawsuit filed Wednesday asks Wisconsin’s newly liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to throw out Republican-drawn legislative maps as unconstitutional, the latest legal challenge of many nationwide that could upset political boundary lines before the 2024 election.
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