WisGop chair referenced in fake electors indictment threatens Democrats over legislative maps

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Brian Schimming, the WisGOP chair who was referenced in a 2023 Georgia indictment over an alleged Wisconsin fake electors scheme, issued a threatening statement to Democrats on Thursday.

Leave the legislative maps (currently favoring Republicans) as is, or face the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court.

“The newly bought and paid for liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court faces yet another test of the public’s trust: do the right thing by leaving the current, constitutional maps in place, or once again abandon sound judgment by catering to their left-wing out-of-state donors. Should they choose the latter, we will look forward to the United States Supreme Court taking up the case, said WisGOP Chairman Brian Schimming in a written statement, Thursday.

Schimming’s statement makes several assumptions: The first, that even if the case were to be appealed to the highest court, that the Supreme Court would grant cert, and further, that the U.S. Supreme Court would rule in the Wisconsin GOP’s favor. The statement also assumes that Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz won the election over funds raised, failing to consider the Justice’s skills, experience, reputation, track record for justice, character, honesty, integrity,  as well as a myriad of other factors that may have caused or contributed to her win against Kelly.

Back in September of 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court handed a defeat to Alabama Republicans for the second time in three months, rejecting their latest attempt to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district, reports NBC News.

In June of 2023, U.S. Supreme Court ruled state courts can curtail the actions of their legislatures when it comes to federal redistricting and elections, rejecting arguments by North Carolina Republicans that could have dramatically altered races for Congress and president in that state and beyond.

As previously reported by the Wisconsin Law Journal, two Republican Wisconsinites including Schimming, were referenced for their alleged role in organizing fraudulent electors in Wisconsin during the 2020 Presidential Election.

As previously reported by the Wisconsin Law Journal, Schimming also appeared at a campaign event for losing Supreme Court candidate Dan Kelly back in April with several other GOP officials who said they are at war with Democrats, the news media, and the federal government, the AP reported.

Also as previously reported by the Wisconsin Law Journal, a Washington D.C. law firm that tries to help Democrats win elections around the country has asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state’s congressional maps, arguing that the court’s decision last month ordering new state legislative maps opens the door to the latest challenge.

The redistricting lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Elias Law Group on behalf of Democratic voters comes less than a month after the court threw out the state legislative maps. Consultants hired by the court are reviewing seven proposed new maps.

Back in April, former Attorney General Eric Holder visited Wisconsin while campaigning for Protasiewicz.

Holder said in April, “Wisconsin is probably the most gerrymandered state in the country,” noting that Democrats only have about 35% of the Wisconsin legislature, which he said is a direct result of the gerrymandering political lines that were redrawn in 2011 under then Governor Scott Walker.

Holder noted that Wisconsin is right down there with Texas currently as far as the most gerrymandered state in the nation.