The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on March 23 Wisconsin state legislative maps drafted by the state’s Democratic governor and approved by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. At the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court also declined to block a new congressional map for the state that was chosen by the Wisconsin court. Republicans currently hold five of the state’s eight congressional seats, while Democrats hold three. Republicans control both chambers of the state legislature in the Badger State. Population shifts discovered after the 2020 Census forced the state to go through redistricting, a process that was hotly contested by both political parties. Republicans approved maps in 2011, when they controlled the legislature and the governorship, but this time, the Democratic governor, Tony Evers, and the Republican-dominated legislature could not agree on new maps. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin was then asked to draw the maps to be used in the …