U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett indicated interest in hearing a challenge to the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s redistricting decision on Monday, just after the Legislature asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
Barrett requested responses to the Legislature’s application from several parties, including Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), by 5:00 PM on Friday, March 11th.
In addition, Justice Coney Barrett gave parties until Tuesday afternoon to respond to a request from Wisconsin’s Republican members of Congress to overturn the maps Wisconsin justices put into place.
A call for response does not guarantee that the U.S. Supreme Court will actually hear the case. However, a Bloomberg Law report from 2018 found that calls for response increase the likelihood that the court will hear a case from 1% to 5%.
