Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
Wisconsin Supreme Court
399 Wis. 2d 623 (2021)

- Written by Sean Carroll, JD
Facts
The Wisconsin Constitution required the Wisconsin legislature to ensure after every U.S. Census that the state’s electoral maps were drawn so that each district contained approximately the same number of people. After the 2020 U.S. Census, the Wisconsin legislature redrew the maps in accordance with this requirement. The Wisconsin governor vetoed the maps, and the judiciary was asked to step in. Some petitioners (plaintiffs) asked the court to resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering that benefited the Republican party. There was no dispute that the maps drawn in 2011 after the 2010 U.S. Census were unconstitutional after the 2020 Census due to the population shifts in the state after 2011.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Bradley, J.)
Concurrence (Hagedorn, J.)
Dissent (Dallet, J.)
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