(The Center Square) – A three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that it cannot overturn the state’s congressional maps because it lacks the authority to do so.
The panel of three circuit-court judges said they collectively “do not have the authority to read into a Wisconsin Supreme Court case an analysis that it does not contain.”
The maps challenge was based on stating that the maps were gerrymandered in an unconstitutional case.
The case was reviewed by a group including Dane County Judge Julie Genovese, Milwaukee County Judge Mark Sanders and Outagamie County Judge Emily Lonergan.
A second challenge from the Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy and a group of individual voters will be determined by a panel including Dane County Judge David Conway, Portage County Judge Patricia Baker and Marathon County Judge Michael Moran.
The originally drawn maps were challenged after the 2020 U.S. Census and four maps were submitted to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, including maps from Gov. Tony Evers and the state’s Republican Congress members. Ultimately, the court chose Evers’ maps.
