The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
Leading Off
●WI Supreme Court: The conservative majority on Wisconsin's Supreme Court handed Republicans a major victory on Tuesday when it issued a ruling saying it would use a "least-change" approach to redrawing the state's election districts. Under such an approach, the court—which took over redistricting after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed new Republican plans—will adjust the current maps in order to achieve population equality between districts, purportedly making any necessary adjustments as minimal as possible.
Of course, those old maps are extreme Republican gerrymanders that were passed on party-line votes without any Democratic input a decade ago, ensuring that any resultant new maps will reinforce those gerrymanders if only modest tweaks are made to the existing lines. That means they’d lock in the GOP's 6-2 advantage in the state's congressional delegation, despite the fact that Joe Biden carried Wisconsin last year, as well as its wide legislative majorities.