ICYMI: Maria Lazar Is Still Defending Rigged Maps
“The state supreme court adopted maps in the 2020 census with the ‘least changes’ from the previous districts, to only make necessary adjustments inducing population shifts, which maintained a Republican edge. Lazar said she respected the supreme court’s decision…”
MADISON, Wis. — In a recent interview with The Daily Cardinal, Maria Lazar continued defending Republican gerrymandering in Wisconsin. Maria Lazar believes that the rigged legislative maps that shielded Wisconsin Republicans from accountability for their extreme agenda for decades should have stayed in place. In fact, Lazar said she disagreed with expert analysis that found Wisconsin’s unconstitutional maps were some of the most gerrymandered maps in the country.
For years, ultra-partisan gerrymandered maps allowed Republicans to gut workers rights and hand more power to corporations, underfund public education, and continuously say no to Medicaid expansion. As Scott Walker’s lawyer, Lazar actively defended the unconstitutional maps in Court. Her latest statement reveals that her top priority continues to be pushing a right-wing agenda instead of following the law.
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- Gov. Tony Evers called for a special legislative session in April to consider a constitutional amendment which would ban partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin. Evers signed new legislative maps in 2024, following a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the old maps were unconstitutional.
- Wisconsin had what experts considered to be some of the most gerrymandered maps in the country. Lazar disagrees.
- “I don’t think that Wisconsin [had] the most gerrymandered maps,” she said.
- The state supreme court adopted maps in the 2020 census with the “least changes” from the previous districts, to only make necessary adjustments inducing population shifts, which maintained a Republican edge.
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