Republicans were handed a victory in Wisconsin after the liberal-majority Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit from Democrats aiming to toss out its redistricted map.
The decision means that the districts drawn by Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) and agreed upon by Republicans will remain in place for the November 2024 election. Though drawn by a Democrat, the current districts were supported by Republicans as the best-case scenario. The lawsuit, brought forward by a Democratic group, threatened to throw out those districts as unconstitutional, ensuring an even more unfavorable redistricting for Republicans.
Republicans were quick to celebrate the decision to throw out the case.
“Mess around and find out,” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella told the Washington Examiner. “The DCCC and Marc Elias got their hands caught in the cookie jar attempting to rig the game to favor Democrats. It’s an open admission Democrats’ policies are too extreme to win fair and square in Wisconsin.”
Republicans feared the worst after last year’s election of Justice Janet Protasiewicz, which ensured the court’s liberal majority. She ultimately did not participate in the decision, arguing that she wasn’t present when the case was first brought forward, the Associated Press reported.
The true reason was likely closely linked with months of Republican campaigning to get her to recuse herself over a conflict of interest with the law firm that brought forth the lawsuit.
The Elias Law Group, run by Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias, was found by the Washington Examiner to have received extensive support from several groups that emerged as main backers of Protasiewicz in the 2023 election.
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“Janet Protasiewicz ran on a platform of changing Wisconsin’s political maps,” Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), who filed the recusal motion for the congressional maps alongside state politicians and four members of Congress in Wisconsin’s delegation, told the Washington Examiner last month.
“Obviously, a lot of support she got was to reach that decision. That’s a huge problem. It’s a huge scandal,” he said.
