While Attorney General Josh Kaul was attending a WisPolitics.com luncheon, news broke that SCOTUS had tossed out the legislative maps created by the Governor. Kaul was asked to share his reaction during the luncheon.
He stated, “I think it is frankly consistent with the increasing activism we have seen from the conservative super majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. There have been several other states whose maps have been challenged, and the Court had consistently said that it was too late in the process to require courts or legislatures to redraw maps. But apparently they have reached a different conclusion here in Wisconsin. They said that this needs to go back to the State Supreme Court. Now there is going to have to be a new process in place. We are already past the date when the Elections Commission had asked to have maps settled. This is going to create some real complications for our election process. And I think what we are going to see is a flurry of court action coming out of this regarding what the next round of maps will look like.”
Read Kaul’s statement on Twitter.
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