More hearings on Wisconsin redistricting are likely on the way after the US Supreme Court rejected the state’s legislative maps.
Although congressional district boundaries were allowed to stand, the case was returned to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a decision on legislative districts.
UW-Madison Law School professor Robert Yoblon says the state court has a few options left.
Wednesday’s decision came on a 7-2 vote.
The Justices determined that Voting Rights Act requirements weren’t addressed when the governor’s maps created a new majority-black district in Milwaukee.
Time is short if the Wisconsin court is going to make its decision ahead of the fall elections.
