Following the release of the SCOTUS decision, Governor Tony Evers released a statement in which he celebrated the “good news” of the proposed congressional maps remaining in place.
He continued that, “Unfortunately, the Supreme Court of the United States today made a remarkable departure, even from their own recent actions, by deciding to reject our maps that the Wisconsin Supreme Court selected just a few weeks ago. Our maps are far better than Republicans’ gerrymandered maps we have now and their maps I vetoed last year, and we are confident our maps comply with federal and state law, including the Equal Protection Clause, the Voting Rights Act, and the least-changes standard articulated by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
Evers vowed that he will go back to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to “demonstrate again that these maps are better and fairer than the maps we have now.”
