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Episode 6: American Democracy Minute for April 18, 2022 - Gerrymandered WI Redistricting Maps Approved by WI Supreme Court
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With rampant gerrymandering by state legislatures around the US, the courts may be the last hope for fair, competitive districts. Not so in Wisconsin, however.
In March, Governor Tony Evers proposed maps which minimized changes to gerrymandered 2011 maps in an effort to get proposals passed that headed off a Republican supermajority in the legislature. The Wisconsin Supreme Court blessed those maps, but the conservative US. Supreme Court threw them out.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that…
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