The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Oct. 3 on the appeal of a ruling by Federal Judges last November that the Wisconsin State Legislature’s 2011 redrawing of State Assembly Districts so blatantly favored Republicans that it was an unconstitutional form of gerrymandering.
The 2-1 decision in Federal District Court in that state had pivoted on the fact that in the 2012 elections, Republican candidates for Assembly got 48.6 percent of the votes statewide yet won 60 of the 99 seats. One of the Judges, Kenneth Ripple—who was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan—wrote that the redistricting that produced that result “was designed to make it more difficult for Democrats, compared to Republicans, to translate their votes into seats.”
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