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MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Gov. Tony Evers is calling the state Legislature into special session to take up a constitutional amendment that would ban partisan gerrymandering.
The Democrat signed an executive order Tuesday morning setting the special session for April 14.
The Republican-controlled Legislature has ignored special sessions Evers has called in the past, opening and immediately closing them without debate.
Under Wisconsin law, congressional and legislative district boundaries are redrawn every 10 years, after a new U.S. census is conducted. The next redistricting is scheduled to take place in 2030.
The last set of state legislative maps — passed by Republicans who controlled the Legislature and signed into law by Republican Gov. Scott Walker — was overturned by the liberal-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023. The Legislature passed a proposal for new maps created by Evers the following year.
The 2010 congressional district maps remain in place, though they are being challenged as well.
Amendments to the Wisconsin constitution must be passed by two consecutive Legislatures and then approved by a majority of Wisconsin voters.
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