In late December 2023, the Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidated the state legislative maps it had approved in 2022. The court’s composition changed from a majority of conservative judges to a 4-3 liberal majority and a new lawsuit was filed claiming that many of the districts in the maps approved by the court were not contiguous – in violation of the state constitution. The court gave a January 12 deadline for parties to the litigation to submit maps, and 7 were submitted on the deadline. Marquette University Law School Professor John Johnson, a Research Fellow in the Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education, has offered his assessment of the submitted maps complete with scorecards and a discussion of how the plans performed using various metrics. Read the analysis here.
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