{"id":1503771,"date":"2024-02-16T17:17:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T17:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=4526333e89732a0afd998660432111f2"},"modified":"2024-02-16T17:17:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T17:17:31","slug":"wisconsin-lawmakers-adopt-new-legislative-maps-to-end-extreme-gop-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/16\/wisconsin-lawmakers-adopt-new-legislative-maps-to-end-extreme-gop-gerrymandering\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Lawmakers Adopt New Legislative Maps to End Extreme GOP Gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin&rsquo;s dinosaur-shaped legislative district could soon be history. The curiously drawn district and other oddities associated with the state&rsquo;s extreme gerrymandering would be erased in new voting maps passed this week by the Wisconsin Legislature. A state Supreme Court decision finally forced Wisconsin Republicans to cede an advantage they enjoyed for more than a decade with maps that made...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/wisconsin-lawmakers-adopt-new-legislative-maps-to-end-extreme-gop-gerrymandering\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/wisconsin-lawmakers-adopt-new-legislative-maps-to-end-extreme-gop-gerrymandering\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP is still expected to retain majorities in both chambers, though the party\u2019s advantage would likely be slimmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,4016,74530,4,36211,4014],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503772,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503771\/revisions\/1503772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}