The end of June was anticlimactic for House redistricting lawsuits. The Supreme Court, after leaving Louisiana v. Callais on the short list of cases to decide on the final day of its term, instead announced (over a dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas) that Callais and a companion case also involving Louisiana’s congressional map were “restored to the calendar for reargument,” presumably in the fall. Meanwhile, in another unexpected move, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to reopen Wisconsin’s congressional map. The current map was drawn by Democratic Governor Tony Evers to make it through the Republican legislature, but Democrats had hoped that liberal control of the state supreme court — solidified by an April 1 election — would result in a judicial push to redraw the maps more in Democrats’ favor. Indeed, that assumption was widely shared by partisans on both sides of the state supreme court election.
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