Wisconsin Republicans Are Starting to Panic Over Crooked Maps

Democracy in Wisconsin continues to be held hostage by a GOP-controlled legislature that is losing popular support and is willing to do almost anything to cling to the power it secured by creating some of the most grossly distorted voting maps in the country.

Terrified that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court will strike down the Republican-drawn maps and end the party's political stranglehold on Wisconsin, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has threatened to impeach newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz in order to prevent her from hearing a case challenging the extremely partisan maps Vos helped create.

Last spring Wisconsin voters gave Protasiewicz a decisive victory over former Justice Dan Kelly, a GOP consultant and anti-abortion extremist, in a $51-million race that shattered all previous records for spending, more than half of which was by outside groups.