June 27, 2019 12:25pm
(AP)---The US Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday that federal courts have no place in policing political district boundaries means that a challenge to Republican-drawn legislative boundaries---here in Wisconsin---is likely over. Democratic voters filed a federal lawsuit in Madison in 2015 alleging that the boundaries Republicans drew in 2011 unfairly diluted Democrats’ voting power. The Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering claims don’t belong in federal court. The decision came as the court rejected challenges to Republican-drawn congressional districts in North Carolina and a Democratic district in Maryland.
Sachin Chheda, director of the Fair Elections Project, says it is likely that Wisconsin’s maps will now have to be addressed by the State Legislature.