Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature are asking a newly elected liberal justice on the state Supreme Court to recuse herself from a redistricting case, or they could consider impeachment.
On the campaign trail, Justice Janet Protasiewicz, who won one of the most watched elections of the year, claimed Wisconsin’s state maps were “rigged” and “unfair” and that she believed the state Supreme Court should do something about it.
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Before Protasiewicz was elected, Republicans held a majority on the court for 15 years. Democrats in Wisconsin saw her election as a chance for Wisconsin’s maps to be drawn fairly, as some have considered them the most gerrymandered in the country.
But, Republicans in the state legislature are claiming that, because of her comments on the campaign trail criticizing the…
