# Wisconsin Supreme Court 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 25, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-2025/1013369 "2025-01-25T03:12:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-2025/1013369/1 "2025-01-25T03:12:43Z")
I envy folks who are done with political ads – but for folks in Wisconsin (and us in neighboring states who get WI TV stations) are starting to get bombarded with ads for the Supreme court. It is technically non-partisan but it is obvious which party supports which candidate. In 2023 the balance shifted to 4-3 toward the liberal wing (by a pretty wide margin, though it is a low turnout election) A liberal justice is retiring which means it could switch back. Here is ballotpedia summary: > **[Wisconsin Supreme Court elections, 2025](https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_elections,_2025)** > > Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics Brian ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-2025/1013369/2 "2025-01-26T16:43:21Z")
I’m not generally familiar with Wisconsin politics but I remember watching that election the last time it came up; and wonder how it’ll come out this time. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-2025/1013369/3 "2025-01-26T19:11:12Z")
I haven’t been following. I don’t remember if it was WI or NC where the court switched back and forth and as a result the laws about gerrymandering changed. The federal supreme court refused to address gerrymandering, so the states took it up. I think I’m thinking of NC where the state supreme court overturned gerrymandering, but then another GOP justice got elected and decided that gerrymandering that benefits the republicans is suddenly legal now. Is gerrymandering abolished in Wisconsin now? My understanding is that during the worst of it, the democratic party had to win 60% of the vote just to break even on the number of seats in the state assembly. Democrats were winning something like 50% of the vote but only 35% of the state assembly seats due to how bad the gerrymandering in WI is. Looking it up, it looks like WI state legislature overcame some gerrymandering recently. > **[107th Wisconsin Legislature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/107th_Wisconsin_Legislature#Party_summary)** > > The One Hundred Seventh Wisconsin Legislature is the current ongoing legislative term in Wisconsin. It was convened on January 6, 2025, in regular session, and is scheduled to conclude on January 4, 2027, though it will likely adjourn for legislative activity in the Spring of 2026. > This is the first legislative session after the redistricting of the Senate and Assembly according to an act of the previous session. > Senators representing even-numbered districts are newly elected for this sessio... ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-2025/1013369/4 "2025-01-26T20:39:27Z")
Yes, basically after the court determined the districts were unconstitutional - the legislature accepted one gov Evers proposed, because they were afraid the court would impose one even worse for republicans. > **[Redistricting in Wisconsin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistricting_in_Wisconsin#2023_Supreme_Court_election_and_new_redistricting_effort)** > > Redistricting in Wisconsin is the process by which boundaries are redrawn for municipal wards, Wisconsin State Assembly districts, Wisconsin State Senate districts, and Wisconsin's congressional districts. Redistricting typically occurs—as in other U.S. states—once every decade, usually in the year after the decennial United States census. According to the Wisconsin Constitution, redistricting in Wisconsin follows the regular legislative process, it must be passed by both houses of the Wisconsi... Brian