From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down the state's legislative maps while pledging to

enforce political neutrality. Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street

Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues. Editorial board member Colin Levy and columnist Kim Strassal.

The new four-three liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is already flexing its new judicial

muscle with a ruling on Friday saying that the state's assembly and Senate seats

are unconstitutional because they include districts that are not contiguous.

Now let's listen to a clip of the speaker of the Assembly,

Robin Voss last week on PBS Wisconsin.

Everybody in Wisconsin knows that this is a farce. They have already decided they're

going to draw new maps because Janet Protewich,

for the first time in the history of the country, predetermined cases when she was running for an election.

That's wrong. But we already know what's happening. So it's not some kind of a big mystery

that we don't know we're going to get maps.

Let's remember that Republicans have had this majority in the chamber for 30 years with two years exception,

and that was under maps run by a court, maps run by the legislature, maps run by a federal court, we're going to win again in

2024 because we have better candidates and a better message.

Colin, what's your read of this decision by the state Supreme Court?

235 pages in all including the dissents and then where the debate

goes from here on what Wisconsin's legislative map should look like.

Right I mean there's no question Kyle that this was a completely political decision.

We knew it was coming.

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