They were drawing the legislative districts in which members of the Wisconsin Senate and State Assembly would be elected. [Supreme Court to hear potentially game-changing case on gerrymandering]The Supreme Court will consider whether gerrymandered election maps in Wisconsin violate the Constitution. Republican leaders and their attorneys have declined to discuss the litigation but describe in their brief to the Supreme Court a process like other states have used for decades. The redistricting process was only one of the controversies that engulfed state politics as the state’s progressive past gave way to a new Republican reality. But Wisconsin — now firmly back in Republican control — responds in filings at the Supreme Court that the results reflect political reality in the state.

Source: Washington Post September 22, 2017 22:40 UTC