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tonight a decision from the wisconsin supreme court on legislative redistricting maps and it's a loss for democrats the court voted 4-3 to adopt the republican legislature's maps instead of those of governor tony evers that it originally approved justice brian hagedorn was the swing vote in both cases in what dissenting justices tonight called a disheartening odyssey this decision follows a republican challenge that had the u.s supreme court sending the case back to the state court at issue in this case the number of majority minority assembly districts in milwaukee the wisconsin high court majority wrote in its decision quote the maps proposed by the governor are racially motivated and under the equal protection clause they fail strict scrutiny by contrast the maps proposed by the wisconsin legislature are race neutral governor tony evers weighed in tonight calling the decision an unconscionable miscarriage of justice and outrageous expert and uw law school professor robert yablon joi