Wisconsin political map headed for appeals court
Wisconsin | May 4, 2021
The legal fight over Wisconsin’s next political map is escalating, and lawmakers haven’t even begun to draw them yet.
A judge in Madison on Thursday canceled the contracts between Republican lawmakers and private lawyers they hired to help draw the maps.
Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke ruled lawmakers overstepped when they signed a deal worth nearly $1 million to attorney Adam Mortara and Consovoy McCarthy.
“Under the plain terms of the statute the defendants did not have authority to enter into the two contracts at issue in this case,” Ehlke wrote.
The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly, Speaker Robin Vos, R-Juneau, said he is not surprised by the decision…
(Excerpts from The Center Square)