Church Rally Supports Plaintiffs In Redistricting Case

About 150 people rallied at a Milwaukee church Sunday to support the plaintiffs in Wisconsin’s redistricting case. The U-S Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow (Tuesday) on a challenge to a federal appeals court ruling which said Wisconsin Republicans drew state districts so favorably to themselves in 2011 that they violated the rights of Democratic voters. The ruling was the result of a lawsuit filed by Democrats in 2015 — and if the Supreme Court upholds it next year, G-O-P supporters say it could result in a flurry of legal challenges to district maps throughout the country. Sachin Chheda, who heads the Fair Elections Project, says a victory in the Wisconsin case would help disenfranchised voters elsewhere regardless of which party created unfair districts.